With the cleverness shown here, crudeĪs most of it is, there should be a possibility of something worth while from the same pen in the future. That fact is the most hopeful thing about it. 'The Voyage Out' is announced as the author’s first novel.

So the story maunders on, and the fact that it is crowded with incident, most of it futile, and that the clever talk by every one continues in a confusingĬataract in every chapter, does not save it from becoming extremely tedious. To be brought up as her father would wish-that is, a proper kind of English young lady. First published in 1915, The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf’s first novel, may be her most accessible. Dalloway to kiss her and confesses that she rather likes the sensation. Which might be presumed to injure the mind of a 'young person.' So it is not strange that one night she permits Mr. Rachel has been kept by her father in ignorance of everything These people all talk smartly, and one rather wonders what it is all about, for it does not seem to get anywhere in particular.

Pepper, wealthy and eccentric, with a leaning to abstruse learning, and a middle-aged, philandering member of ParliamentĪnd his wife, Clarissa, whom they pick up at Lisbon. On the ship are Willoughby’s daughter, 24 years old, Rachel, a Mr. The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf’s first novel, published in 1915.

Ridley Ambrose, a professor, and his wife, Helen, a woman of the smart London world, are going to the antipodes on a vessel owned by Helen’s brother-in-law, One after going through a hundred pages of it-there is little in this offering to make it stand out from the ruck of mediocre novels which make far less literary pretension.Īs for the story itself, it is painfully lacking, both in coherency and narrative interest. But aside from a certain cleverness-which, being all in one key, palls on In its most interesting aspects-those in which members of Parliament and their coterie of relatives and friends are the active figures-there can be no doubt. His English novel, by an English writer, gives promise in its opening chapters of much entertainment.

The voyage out by virginia woolf