The Voyage Out
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| The Voyage Out, Barnes and Noble Classics edition 2004 | |
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Released | March 26, 1915 |
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| ISBN | N/A |
The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf published in 1915 by Duckworth; published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran.
In The Voyage Out, one of Woolf's wittiest, socially satirical novels, Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship, and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage. It introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs. Dalloway. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize contemporary Edwardian life.
E. M. Forster described it as "... a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South americanca not found on any map and reached by a boat which would not float on any sea, an americanca whose spiritual boundaries touch Xanadu and Atlantis."
[edit] External links
- The Voyage Out, available freely at Project Gutenberg
Novels: The Voyage Out · Night and Day · Jacob's Room · Mrs Dalloway · To the Lighthouse · The Waves · The Years · Between the Acts
Short stories: A Haunted House · A Society · Monday or Tuesday · An Unwritten Novel · The String Quartet · Blue & Green · Kew Gardens · The Mark on the Wall · The New Dress
Biographies: Orlando: A Biography · Flush: A Biography · Roger Fry: A Biography
Non-fiction: Modern Fiction · The Common Reader · A Room of One's Own · On Being Ill · The London Scene · The Second Common Reader · Three Guineas · The Death of the Moth and Other Essays · The Moment and Other Essays
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