The Voyage Out (Arcturus Classics) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1398818526 ISBN 13: 9781398818521

Publisher: Arcturus, 2025

Synopsis

A thought-provoking novel of love and loss by one of the twentieth century's most important writers.

In 1905, the naïve young woman Rachel Vinrace embarks on a journey to South America that will change her life forever. As the long sea voyage proceeds, she connects with her fellow travellers and discovers the true meaning of love.

Filled with a series of exceptional character portraits, Woolf uses the book to comment on the absurdities of Edwardian life and explores the competing desires for freedom, intellectual stimulation and romantic passion. Woolf's first novel, it is at once an insightful exploration of the female mind and a critique of a society that sought to restrict people to particular roles.

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About the Author

Virginia Woolf, who was to become a major figure in the Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals, was born into an intellectual family in 1882. Her mother died when she was 13 and the death of her half-sister Stella two years later led to her first nervous breakdown. Woolf suffered from fragile mental health all her life and on 28 March 1941, after filling the pockets of her overcoat with stones, she walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcturus
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1398818526
• ISBN 13: 9781398818521
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448