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To The Lighthouse is a philosophical introspective novel by eminent modernist Virginia Woolf. Summary of the Book Beginning with the Ramsays' summer house, the story watches the changes in the family through many years. James, the son, asks if they can visit the lighthouse the next day. When Mrs. Ramsay says they should be able to, Mr. Ramsay denies her prediction of good weather. The novel favours more thoughts and observations rather than dialogue and action, and explores themes of loss, subjectivity and perception. The years pass, and the family comes together after the great war, and the changes in them are apparent. Once again they question whether they can journey to the lighthouse, and the answers they find there are not the kind they once expected. About Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and one of the principal modernists of the last century. She won much acclaim for her novels: Mrs Dalloway and A Room Of One's Own. A noted feminist, Virginia became a principal figure in London's literary societies and in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals.