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The voyage out / Virginia Woolf ; edited with an introduction and notes by Jane Wheare.

Title
The voyage out / Virginia Woolf ; edited with an introduction and notes by Jane Wheare.
Author
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Publication
London, England ; New York, N.Y., USA : Penguin Books, 1992.

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Additional Authors
Wheare, Jane, 1961-
Description
xxxix, 382 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
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 discover Woolf as an emerging and original artist: not identified with the heroine, but present everywhere in the social satire, the lyricism, and the patterning of consciousness.
Series Statement
Penguin twentieth-century classics
Uniform Title
Penguin twentieth-century classics
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Bildungsromans
  • Fiction
  • Fiction.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [vii]).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0140185631
LCCN
^^^92206747^
OCLC
  • 26199310
  • SCSB-12190583
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library