&quot;<b>To the Lighthouse</b>&quot;&nbsp;is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf.&nbsp;Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its philosophical introspection. Cited as a key example of the stream-of-consciousness literary technique, the novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships. Among the book&#39;s many tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, and the problem of perception.&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Virginia Woolf&nbsp;</b>(25 January 1882 &ndash; 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.