The Voyage Out Paperback - 2003
by Virginia Woolf
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- Title The Voyage Out
- Author Virginia Woolf
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Date 2003
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0156028050I5N00
- ISBN 9780156028059 / 0156028050
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 7.99 x 5.3 x 1.01 in (20.29 x 13.46 x 2.57 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Bildungsromans, Young women
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London to a resort on the South american coast. “It is 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” (E. M. Forster).
From the rear cover
The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage. Virginia Woolf knew all too well the forms that she was supposed to follow when writing of a young lady's entrance into the world, and she struggled to subvert the conventions, wittily and assiduously, rewriting and revising the novel many times. The finished work is not, on the face of it, a 'portrait of the artist'. However, through The Voyage Out readers discover Woolf as an emerging and original artist: not identified with the heroine, but present everywhere in the social satire, the lyricism, and the patterning of consciousness.
