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"I probably did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients." Virginia Woolf on her work on 'To the Lighthouse'. Virginia Woolf is a wonder. No matter what she wrote, it always seemed to come from the same core. Wherever she sat down to write her novels, stories, essays, letters, or her diary, she was always completely herself. There is no novel of hers that can be studied as closely as 'To the Lighthouse'. For one, it is considered the most innovative and perfect of her novels. On the other hand, there is no book of hers in which her reflections on childhood, her dearly beloved mother, and the distant father are so clearly delineated. From the rich collection of the 30-volume complete works of Virginia Woolf edited by Klaus Reichert, letters, stories, diary entries, and essays are presented alongside the novels.