To the Lighthouse (The Norton Library)

“What a gift to those encountering To the Lighthouse for the first time! This volume’s luminous and learned introduction beckons readers into its pages and into its depths of style and meaning. Seshagiri is a reliable and readable guide, making clear why Woolf’s novel deserves the title ‘masterpiece.’”

—Jessica Berman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

“This new edition of To the Lighthouse includes a dazzling introduction by Woolf scholar Urmila Seshagiri. Delightful and informative, the introduction explains how Virginia Woolf combines psychological insight, literary innovations, artistic scope, and personal history into one of the most beloved and important novels in English. Readers will rejoice at this meticulously edited volume. In Seshagiri, To the Lighthouse has its most intelligent and welcoming reader.”

—Anne E. Fernald, Fordham University

“Here at last is the American edition of one of Woolf’s most formally ambitious and experimental works restored to its original layout and with all Woolf’s final American proof corrections in place. Urmila Seshagiri’s meticulous and informative edition does great service to all Woolf’s readers, whether seasoned travellers or newly come to To the Lighthouse.”

—Jane Goldman, University of Glasgow

 

Carefully edited by Urmila Seshagiri, the Norton Library edition of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse features a newly accurate text of Woolf’s 1927 masterpiece. Seshagiri’s introduction highlights Woolf’s stylistic ingenuity in To the Lighthouse, and her endnotes explain historical terminology and allusions.

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