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* ContentWarning: The US publisher Vintage added one to their 2023 edition of the book.
--> This book was published in 1927 and reflects the attitudes of its time. The publisher’s decision to present it as it was originally published is not intended as an endorsement of cultural representations or language contained herein.



* WellDoneSonGuy: Mr. Ramsay to James during Part [=III=].

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* WellDoneSonGuy: Mr. Ramsay to James during Part [=III=].[=III=].
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* BonnieScotland: The setting.
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* ContemplateOurNavels: Most of the characters. Frequently.

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Creator/VirginiaWoolf Modernist novel published in 1927. The plot, such as it is, centres on the visits of the Ramsay family to their summer home in Scotland before and after WorldWarI, where they are joined by numerous friends and acquaintances and where they all spend a good deal of time [[ContemplateOurNavels contemplating their navels]], ruminating on the political and social landscape of the times, and arguing about the weather.

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Creator/VirginiaWoolf Modernist novel published in 1927. The plot, such as it is, centres on the visits of the Ramsay family to their summer home in Scotland before and after WorldWarI, UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, where they are joined by numerous friends and acquaintances and where they all spend a good deal of time [[ContemplateOurNavels contemplating their navels]], ruminating on the political and social landscape of the times, and arguing about the weather.



* WellDoneSonGuy: Mr. Ramsay to James during Part [=III=].
* WorldWarI: Briefly alluded to in ''Time Passes''. The novel itself focuses more on the effect the war has on the characters.

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* WellDoneSonGuy: Mr. Ramsay to James during Part [=III=].
* WorldWarI: Briefly alluded to in ''Time Passes''. The novel itself focuses more on the effect the war has on the characters.
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* RuleofSymbolism: As a Modernist novel, this is to be expected. Also, in universe, Lily Briscoe's portrait of Mrs Ramsey is itself contructed of symbols.

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* RuleofSymbolism: RuleOfSymbolism: As a Modernist novel, this is to be expected. Also, in universe, Lily Briscoe's portrait of Mrs Ramsey is itself contructed of symbols.


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* WellDoneSonGuy: Mr. Ramsay to James during Part [=III=].

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* ArcWords: Part [=I=], "Someone had blundered"; Part [=III=], "We perished, each alone"

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* ArcWords: Part [=I=], "Someone had blundered"; Part [=III=], "We perished, each alone"alone"; Also, "To the lighthouse" for the whole book.


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* TheQuest: To the Lighthouse. It takes years.
* RuleofSymbolism: As a Modernist novel, this is to be expected. Also, in universe, Lily Briscoe's portrait of Mrs Ramsey is itself contructed of symbols.
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* ArcWords: Part [=I=], "Someone had blundered"; Part [=III=], "We perished, each alone"
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Charles Tansley.
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* CannotSpitItOut: Much to the latter's frustration, Mrs Ramsay finds it impossible to simply tell her husband she loves him, despite the fact that they have been married for years.
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Creator/VirginiaWoolf Modernist novel published in 1927. The plot, such as it is, centres on the visits of the Ramsay family to their summer home in Scotland before and after WorldWarI, where they are joined by numerous friends and acquaintances and where they all spend a good deal of time [[ContemplateOurNavels contemplating their navels]], ruminating on the political and social landscape of the times, and arguing about the weather.

The book, which drew heavily on Woolf's own childhood memories, was the author's most commercially successful, and she herself considered it her best work.

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* BonnieScotland: The setting.
* ContemplateOurNavels: Most of the characters. Frequently.
* DeathByChildbirth: Prue Ramsay.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Andrew, Prue, and Mrs Ramsey during Part [=II=].
* StayInTheKitchen: Charles Tansley, who asserts to painter Lily's face that "Women can neither paint nor write."
* WorldWarI: Briefly alluded to in ''Time Passes''. The novel itself focuses more on the effect the war has on the characters.

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