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To The Lighthouse
By Virginia Woolf

8216;8216;I have an idea that I will invent a new name for my books to supplant 8216;novel8217;. A new 8212; by Virginia Woolf. But what?8217;8217;. In this quotation, Woolf expresses the problems inherent in reading To the Lighthouse. It is not a novel in the Charles Dickens or George Eliot model and cannot be judged as such. Very little action occurs in the course of its 230 pages. The births, marriages, deaths and external events the notable one for Woolf to include would have been the First World War, that fill the traditional novel, are dispensed with at an extraordinary pace and often included only in parentheses, as inconsequential additions.