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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... Read Full Overview

The Modern Library is proud to include Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out --together with a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham. Published to acclaim in England in 1915 and in America five years later, The Voyage Out marks Woolf's... Read Full Overview

Virginia Woolf's first novel. Rachel Vinrace was a wealthy young women in Edwardian London. Sailing on her father's ship to South America, her life becomes much more interesting as she encounters a cast of colorful characters satirizing societal stereotypes. The book also marks... Read Full Overview

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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. Lorna Sage's Introduction and Explanatory Notes offer... Read Full Overview

Son tan estrechas las calles que van del Strand al Embankment que no es conveniente que las parejas paseen por ellas cogidas del brazo. Haci ndolo, exponen a los empleadillos de tres al cuarto a meterse en los charcos, en su af n por adelantarles, o a recibir ellos un empuj n... Read Full Overview

Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life.

"A strange, tragic, inspired novel . . . as poignant as anything in modern fiction." -- E. M. Forster

THE VOYAGE OUT by Virginia Woolf 1882-1941

As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers' clerks will have to make flying leaps into the mud; young lady typists will have to fidget behind you. In the streets of London... Read Full Overview

Helen and Ridley Ambrose are preparing to set off for an exotic resort off the coast of South America on the Euphrosyne, a ship belonging to Helen's brother-in-law Willoughby Vinrace. Travelling with them is his daughter Rachel - a quiet, unremarkable girl raised in the London... Read Full Overview

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Woolf's wittiest social satires.

Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery... Read Full Overview

Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential authors of the early twentieth century. Woolf was a significant figure in the London literary society as well as the Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Despite suffering from mental illness for much of her life, Woolf left a lasting... Read Full Overview

The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's debut novel, a rich and introspective exploration of youth and self-discovery, centring Rachel Vinrace, a young woman embarking on a journey of both physical and emotional awakening.

Aboard her father's ship, the Euphrosyne,... Read Full Overview