The Voyage Out: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156028050 ISBN 13: 9780156028059

Verlag: Mariner Books Classics, 2003

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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).

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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, transformed the art of the novel with groundbreaking works such as Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. The author of numerous collections of letters, journals, and short stories, she was an admired literary critic and a master of the essay form. The Voyage Out was first published in 1915.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mariner Books Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0156028050
• ISBN 13: 9780156028059
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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