To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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06/27/23

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To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf audiobook.

Genre: drama

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse invites listeners into the summer home of the Ramsay family on the Isle of Skye, where a simple plan to visit a distant lighthouse becomes a quiet measure of desire, disappointment, and devotion. At the center are Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay: he, a celebrated but anxious intellectual hungry for reassurance; she, luminous in her attention to others, holding the household together through warmth and tact. Around them gather their children and a circle of guests, including the painter Lily Briscoe, who struggles to make her vision real on canvas while resisting the pressures and judgments that surround her. As days pass and years press in, the promise of the lighthouse trip lingers like a question: what can be saved of a moment, a family, a work of art? Moving through shifting perspectives and sensations, Woolf traces how love and ambition, memory and time, shape the inner lives of ordinary people. The novel becomes an intimate exploration of consciousness and the fragile, persistent hope of reaching some fixed point beyond change.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:32:09) Chapter 02

(01:02:10) Chapter 03

(01:38:19) Chapter 04

(02:15:43) Chapter 05

(02:42:11) Chapter 06

(03:01:54) Chapter 07

(03:35:19) Chapter 08

(04:09:41) Chapter 09

(04:37:06) Chapter 10

(04:58:04) Chapter 11

(05:17:34) Chapter 12

(05:45:34) Chapter 13

(06:18:39) Chapter 14

(06:43:16) Chapter 15

(07:08:25) Chapter 16

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Genre: fantasy

The Wood beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. His use of archaic language has been seen by some modern readers as making his fiction difficult to read, but brings a wonderful atmosphere to the telling.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:22:57) Chapter 02

(00:48:33) Chapter 03

(01:06:29) Chapter 04

(01:45:41) Chapter 05

(02:15:23) Chapter 06

(02:40:24) Chapter 07

(03:08:45) Chapter 08

(03:49:54) Chapter 09

(04:16:14) Chapter 10