To The Lighthouse

‘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.