To The Lighthouse
- Length
- 7 h 51 min
- Chapters
- 16
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Literary Fiction
- First published
- 1927
The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book about how people think and feel and relate. There’s insight into the world of childhood thought and emotion, and a variety of views of adult cares and perceptions.
I hope this doesn’t make it sound ‘difficult’, it doesn’t need to be – just let the sentences flow and make your own sense of the words. It’s perhaps as close as a novel can come to the highly individual experience of looking at a painting. … - Summary by Cori Samuel
This recording was originally published on Legamus.eu and was later released on Librivox when US copyright permitted.
Chapters
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