The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
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The Voyage Out
Penguin Classics

Author: Virginia Woolf, Jane Wheare

Narrator: Masali Baduza, Kristin Atherton

Unabridged: 15 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/03/2020

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Masali Baduza, star of the BBC adaptation of Malorie Blackman's Noughts + Crosses. This definitive recording features an introduction by Jane Wheare.

A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, a young girl, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society, books, sex, love and marriage. She is a free spirit half-caught, momentarily and passionately, by Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer who she meets in Santa Marina. But their engagement is to end abruptly, and tragically. Virginia Woolf's first novel, published in 1915, is a haunting exploration of a young woman's mind, signalling the beginning of her fascination with capturing the mysteries and complexities of the inner life.

© Virginia Woolf 1992 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist, and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. In 1917, she and her husband founded the Hogarth Press, which published the work of T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Katherine Mansfield, as well as the earliest translations of Sigmund Freud. Her major novels include Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves, The Years, and Between the Acts. She is also the author of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob's Room, A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Violet on February 06, 2017

How flimsy are the accroutrements of civilisation in the face of nature. It’s like it took Virginia a third of this novel to get out of her Victorian stays, chemises, petticoats and corsets. Once she shakes off all the Victorian trappings though she moves with beautiful poise and clarity of purpose.......more

Goodreads review by Candi on July 24, 2015

Rachel Vinrace sets out on a voyage from the confines of her home in England, where she is raised by her spinster aunts, to the exotic coast of South America in the early twentieth century. But more than just the physical journey from one shore to another, The Voyage Out is a story of the transforma......more

Goodreads review by William2 on July 05, 2018

Overall I found the novel on second reading to be very good. The fully developed Woolfian sense of humor is here. In the early going the book doesn't seem at all inferior to later more experimental works. Though those later works are leaner, more engaged with how to represent cognition in a text. In......more

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