Categories: Classic Books & Novels


The Voyage Out
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) Virginia Woolf , Edited by Lorna Sage


The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her fathers 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 ladys 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 will discover Woolf as an emerging and original artist: not identified with the heroine, but present everywhere in the social
satire and the lyricism and patterning of consciousness.


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Product details

Format Paperback | 496 pages
Dimensions 128 x 195 x 23mm | 338g
Publication date 30 Aug 2009
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Reissue
ISBN10 0199539308
ISBN13 9780199539307
Bestsellers rank 156,197