TO THE LIGHT HOUSE

‘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 evento think, to be silent; to be alone...’First published in 1972, To the Lighthouseis an exceptional experiment inthe literary technique of stream of consciousness. It is considered as oneof the best English-language novels of the twentieth century. This novel byVirginia Woolf is an epitome of human desire, a force that pulsates overthe 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 infeminist literature of all times.