Modern Classics TO THE LIGHTHOUSE is at once a vivid impres­sionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitter­ness. Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives, gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it rep­resented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.