The Voyage Out
- Virginia Woolf
- Paperback
- Random House US Group
- 14/09/2021
- ISBN: 9780593242629
RRP: $27.99 (Inc. GST)
Description
new to Modern Classics
A young woman learns about life, and love found and lost, in this thought-provoking debut novel by one of the twentieth centuryâs most brilliant and prolific writersâwith an introduction by Elisa Gabbert, author of The Unreality of Memory
âAbsolutely unafraid . . . Here at last is a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a different path.ââE. M. Forster
London, 1905: Twenty-four-year-old Rachel Vinrace is a free spirited but painfully naĂŻve young woman when she embarks on a sea voyage with her family to South America. Arriving in Santa Marina, a town on the South American coast, Rachel and her aunt Helen are introduced to a group of English expatriates. Among them is the young, sensitive Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer, who is drawn to Rachelâs unusual mind. The two fall in love, unaware of the tragedy that lies ahead.
With hints of Jane Austen, The Voyage Out is a softer and more traditional novel than Virginia Woolfâs later work, even as its poetic style and innovative techniqueâwith detailed portraits of charactersâ inner lives and mesmeric shifts between the quotidian and the profoundâbear the hallmark of Woolfâs fiction.
The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.
Ages 13+