TO THE LIGHT HOUSE (PB)

 ‘For now she need not think of anybody. She
could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need
of—to think; well not even to think, to be silent; to be alone…’

First published in 1972, To the
Lighthouse
is an exceptional experiment in the literary technique of stream of
consciousness. It is considered as one of the best English-language novels of
the twentieth century. This novel by Virginia Woolf is an epitome of human
desire, a force that pulsates over the indifferent sea of the natural world
leading people’s passage across it. To the
Lighthouse
, like Woolf ’s other works, has earned its rightful place in feminist
literature of all times.