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"To the Lighthouse" is Virginia Woolf's 1927 modernist masterpiece following the Ramsay family during two visits to their summer home on Scotland's Isle of Skye, spanning from 1910 to 1920. Using revolutionary stream-of-consciousness technique, the novel explores the interior lives of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, their eight children, and artist friend Lily Briscoe as they navigate themes of time, memory, loss, and the meaning of life. The narrative unfolds in three sections, culminating in a long-postponed trip to the lighthouse that becomes a meditation on mortality, art's power to preserve experience, and the transient nature of human existence.