Voyage out

This acclaimed work marked the debut of one of the 20th century''s most brilliant and important authors. Virginia Woolf''s captivating exploration of a young woman''s growing self-awareness parallels a shipboard journey to South America with an inner quest. An accessible introduction to Woolf''s writing, the book was acclaimed by E. M. Forster as "a strange, tragic, inspired novel . . . as poignant as anything in modern fiction."