The voyage out / Virginia Woolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British--South America--Fiction.

British.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

South America.

Women travelers--Fiction.

Women travelers.

Ocean travel--Fiction.

Ocean travel.

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Physical Description:

xliv, 473 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

Modern Library edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Library, 2000.

Summary:

"Rachel Vinrace, Woolf's first heroine, is a motherless young woman who, at twenty-four, embarks on a sea voyage with a party of other English folk to South America. Guileless, and with only a smattering of education, Rachel is taken under the wing of her aunt Helen, who desires to teach Rachel "how to live." Arriving in Santa Marina, a village on the South American coast, Rachel and Helen are introduced to a group of English expatriates. Among them is the young, sensitive Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer, with whom Rachel falls in love. But theirs is ultimately a tale of doomed love, set against a chorus of other stories and other points of view, as the narrative shifts focus between its central and peripheral characters."

"This edition includes a new Introduction by Michael Cunningham. Cunningham at once unfolds an engaging short essay of Woolf's early life and career, an insightful exploration of the themes to which Woolf returns again and again in her fiction, and a spirited defense of the relevance and lasting importance of her art."--Jacket.

Other Format:

Online version: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Voyage out.

ISBN:

0679640282

9780679640288

OCLC:

42752718

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