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Archive for May 17th, 2011

Granta, the British magazine of new writing,  has published online Helen Dunmore’s introduction to a new paperback edition of Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse, which is part of the Orange Inheritance Collection.

In the following quote, Dunmore captures one reason why I love Woolf so much. Her introduction includes many more.

Each time I return to To The Lighthouse I’m struck by something that I haven’t noticed before: a flash of description, a moment of double-edged intimacy between two characters, a touch of sensory experience so immediate that it brings a shiver.

Online access to the To the Lighthouse introduction is available in conjunction with Granta’s new summer issue, The F Word.

Thanks to Mark Hussey for the news.

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