List Containing Books The Voyage Out
| Title | : | The Voyage Out |
| Author | : | Virginia Woolf |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 375 pages |
| Published | : | February 3rd 2003 by Mariner Books (first published 1915) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction |
Virginia Woolf
Paperback | Pages: 375 pages Rating: 3.75 | 8760 Users | 636 Reviews
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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 America not found on any map and reached by a boat which would not float on any sea, an America whose spiritual boundaries touch Xanadu and Atlantis” (E. M. Forster).Details Books As The Voyage Out
| Original Title: | The Voyage Out |
| ISBN: | 0156028050 (ISBN13: 9780156028059) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Clarissa Dalloway, Rachel Vinrace, Helen Ambrose, Ridley Ambrose, Richard Dalloway, Terence Hewet |
| Setting: | South America |
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Ratings: 3.75 From 8760 Users | 636 ReviewsJudge Containing Books The Voyage Out
Self-consciously recalling the fiction of Jane Austen, The Voyage Out makes strange the conventions of the nineteenth-century British novel. Woolf's first novel, published in 1915 in the midst of the First World War, echoes so many features of the past century's most popular form of literature. Be it the story's creaky adherence to the marriage plot or the omniscient narrator's stilted interest in the female protagonist's moral education, most of the novel dutifully relies on conventions it
Im sitting in front of my computer screen wondering which of several angles to choose in order to make this review something more than just another account of the plot and characters of The Voyage Out (1915). My copy of the book is on the desk beside me and Im sorting through the various passages Ive underlined looking for the slant that will please me most. The following line describing leading character Helen Ambrose catches my eye: She had her embroidery frame set up on deck, with a little
It took me 3 months to listen to this, as I listened to almost every passage at least 2x, as Juliet Stevenson's voice constructed the peculiar insular world of a group of English people a century ago on first a ship, and then at a hotel abroad. I liked it surprisingly much, even as it is a gentler, less subtle and more conventional Woolf than the puzzler of the later novels. I think the thing that I found most intriguing was the sense that 100 years ago, with its confusion about women's roles in
'You see, I'm not as simple as most women,' Evelyn continued. 'I think I want more. I don't know exactly what I feel.'He sat by her, watching her and refraining from speech.'I sometimes think I haven't got it in me to care very much for one person only. Some one else would make you a better wife. I can imagine you very happy with some one else.'My least favourite of Woolf's novels to date, this is full of possibilities and potentialities, most of which don't come to fruition. Or do they? Does it
ETA: There is in fact a reason for Woolf including so many characters, and there is another theme too - how people react to a life changing event, in this case (view spoiler)[death (hide spoiler)]. Woolf looks at people's behavior, the behavior of family members, close friends and other acquaintances too. All these people were a necessary part of the book. You can observe Woolf observing people and our different ways of behaving. This book does not leave you when completed! No, it's quite a good
3.5 Hard for me to define my feelings on this novel, a stream of consciousness novel that has a great many characters. Woolf herself was an observer of people, of society and that is certainly apparent in her characters, their thoughts and the situations in which they find themselves. This is not an easy read, though it is a thought provoking one. One the one hand I am not sure that it needed as many characters as there were, made this more confusing than it needed to be. Some of the thoughts
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