The Voyage Out

The Voyage Out

by Frances Spalding (Introduction), Frances Spalding (Introduction), Erica Wagner (Introduction), Virginia Woolf (Author)

Synopsis

With introductions by Frances Spalding and Erica Wagner. The Voyage Out opens with a party of English people aboard the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, a young girl, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society. She is a free spirit, half-caught, momentarily and passionately, by Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer met in Santa Marina. But their engagement is to end abruptly, not in marriage but in tragedy. Published in 1915, The Voyage Out was Virginia Woolf's first novel.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 16 Jan 1992

ISBN 10: 0099982900
ISBN 13: 9780099982906
Book Overview: Virginia Woolf's first novel about a young woman's search for life, love and the world

Media Reviews
Done with something startling like genius - in its humour and its sense of irony, the occasional poignancy of its emotions, its profound originality * Observer *
It is absolutely unafraid... Here at last is a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a different path -- E. M. Forster
Author Bio
Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. From 1915, when she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf maintained an astonishing output of fiction, literary criticism, essays and biography. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917 they founded The Hogarth Press. Virginia Woolf suffered a series of mental breakdowns throughout her life, and on 28 March 1941 she committed suicide.