The Voyage Out (Oxford World's Classics)
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...
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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 will discover Woolf as an emerging and original artist: not identified with the heroine, but present everywhere in the socialsatire and the lyricism and patterning of consciousness.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B008B391OY
Publish date: March 26th 2009
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
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I would have liked this book better if she hadn't stuck to such a typical narrative and narrative structure. I know this is Woolf's first novel and it certainly has a lot of promise but knowing what I know about her writing style, this book is the beginnings of that development and I was left wantin...
I think this was the first I've read of Virginia Woolf, so I wasn't sure what to expect. It wasn't quite as good as I'd hoped though. It didn't feel like a great deal happened for awhile, at least earlier on in the book, and some of the descriptive or philosophical passages got rather wordy and to...
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