This is a book that cannot be read-or heard-too often. Ramsey is consumed with his legacy of long-since-published abstract philosophy. Ramsey is both trapped in and pleased in her roles as wife, mother and hostess. To The Lighthouse plays back and forth between telescopic and microscopic views of nature and human nature. Leishman also draws our attention to Woolf's poetic prose: her rhythms and images, her use of hard consonants in monosyllabic words in counterpoint to long, soft, dreamy words and phrases. These passages are interspersed with quick, sharp, simple sentences that gain strength in contrast. Leishman swims smoothly through Woolf's sentences that ebb and flow with numerous parenthetical thoughts and fresh images. She creates not a new but a more nuanced reading, following the interwoven streams of consciousness in a British English that lends authenticity to each voice. Leishman makes masterly use of volume, timbre and resonance to distinguish between characters and draw us into the emotional swings and vibrations of the internal musings of each. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 19. It's wondrous to listen to a fine reading of a long-loved novel. To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf.
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