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To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
4.0

“ If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is to-day? Does the progress of civilisation depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now than in the time of the Pharaohs? Is the lot of the average human being, however, he asked himself, the criterion by which we judge the measure of civilisation? Possibly not”.

A wonderful, subversive, genre-bending-at-the-time soliloquy of the average human being, written with wit and devastation.