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The voyage out / Virginia Woolf ; edited with an introduction by Lorna Sage

By:

Woolf, Virginia, , 1882-1941

Material type: Text

TextSeries: World's classicsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press , 1992.Description: xxxvi, 445 p. ; 19 cmISBN:

9780192818348

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Bildungsroman

DDC classification:

FIC WOO

LOC classification:

PR6045.O72 V68 1992b

Summary: In The Voyage Out, one of Woolf's wittiest, socially satirical novels, Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship, and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage. Lorna Sage's Introduction and Explanatory Notes offer guidance to the reader new to Woolf, and illuminate Woolf's presence, not identifiable in the heroine, but in the social satire, lyricism, and patterning of consciousness in one woman's rite of passage.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC WOO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		009935

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxi-xxxiii).

In The Voyage Out, one of Woolf's wittiest, socially satirical novels, Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship, and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage. Lorna Sage's Introduction and Explanatory Notes offer guidance to the reader new to Woolf, and illuminate Woolf's presence, not identifiable in the heroine, but in the social satire, lyricism, and patterning of consciousness in one woman's rite of passage.

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