Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192837110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Woolf's first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London to a resort on the South american coast. "It is a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South americanca not found on any map and reached by a boat which would not float on any sea, an americanca whose spiritual boundaries touch Xanadu and Atlantis" (E. M. Forster).
The Voyage Out
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192837110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Woolf's first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London to a resort on the South american coast. "It is a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South americanca not found on any map and reached by a boat which would not float on any sea, an americanca whose spiritual boundaries touch Xanadu and Atlantis" (E. M. Forster).
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192837110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Woolf's first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London to a resort on the South american coast. "It is a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South americanca not found on any map and reached by a boat which would not float on any sea, an americanca whose spiritual boundaries touch Xanadu and Atlantis" (E. M. Forster).
Virginia Woolf Collection
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782125457
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a compendium of the best works by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782125457
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a compendium of the best works by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
The Voyage Out
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486848205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Woolf's acclaimed first novel, a moving depiction of the thrills and confusion of youth, traces a shipboard journey to South America in a captivating exploration of a young woman's growing self-awareness.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486848205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Woolf's acclaimed first novel, a moving depiction of the thrills and confusion of youth, traces a shipboard journey to South America in a captivating exploration of a young woman's growing self-awareness.
The Escape of Robert Smalls
Author: Jehan Jones-Radgowski
Publisher:
ISBN: 1543512895
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
The mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate soldiers. In the early hours of May 13, 1862, in the midst of the deadly U.S. Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls was about to carry out a perilous plan of escape. Standing at the helm of the ship, Smalls impersonated the captain as he and his crew passed heavily armed Confederate forts to enter Union territory, where escaped slaves were given shelter. The suspenseful escape of the determined crew is celebrated with beautiful artwork and insightful prose, detailing the true account of an unsung American hero.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1543512895
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
The mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate soldiers. In the early hours of May 13, 1862, in the midst of the deadly U.S. Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls was about to carry out a perilous plan of escape. Standing at the helm of the ship, Smalls impersonated the captain as he and his crew passed heavily armed Confederate forts to enter Union territory, where escaped slaves were given shelter. The suspenseful escape of the determined crew is celebrated with beautiful artwork and insightful prose, detailing the true account of an unsung American hero.
Modernism, Feminism and the Culture of Boredom
Author: Allison Pease
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107027578
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Illustrates how boredom formed an important category of critique against the constraints of women's lives in British modernist literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107027578
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Illustrates how boredom formed an important category of critique against the constraints of women's lives in British modernist literature.
Voyage
Author: Sterling Hayden
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380017805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
A magnificent epic of the sea and a dynamic portrait of turn-of-the-century America.--Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380017805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
A magnificent epic of the sea and a dynamic portrait of turn-of-the-century America.--Publishers Weekly
The Voyage Out
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191647810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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 will discover Woolf as an emerging and original artist: not identified with the heroine, but present everywhere in the social satire and the lyricism and patterning of consciousness. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191647810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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 will discover Woolf as an emerging and original artist: not identified with the heroine, but present everywhere in the social satire and the lyricism and patterning of consciousness. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Unreality of Memory
Author: Elisa Gabbert
Publisher: FSG Originals
ISBN: 0374720339
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
"Terror, disaster, memory, selfhood, happiness . . . leave it to a poet to tackle the unthinkable so wisely and so wittily."* A literary guide to life in the pre-apocalypse, The Unreality of Memory collects profound and prophetic essays on the Internet age’s media-saturated disaster coverage and our addiction to viewing and discussing the world’s ills. We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase “Did you see?” The feeling that we’re living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gotten—and each new catastrophe distracts us from the last. The Unreality of Memory collects provocative, searching essays on disaster culture, climate anxiety, and our mounting collective sense of doom. In this new collection, acclaimed poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert explores our obsessions with disasters past and future, from the sinking of the Titanic to Chernobyl, from witch hunts to the plague. These deeply researched, prophetic meditations question how the world will end—if indeed it will—and why we can’t stop fantasizing about it. Can we avoid repeating history? Can we understand our moment from inside the moment? With The Unreality of Memory, Gabbert offers a hauntingly perceptive analysis of our new ways of being and a means of reconciling ourselves to this unreal new world. "A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery.” *—Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less
Publisher: FSG Originals
ISBN: 0374720339
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
"Terror, disaster, memory, selfhood, happiness . . . leave it to a poet to tackle the unthinkable so wisely and so wittily."* A literary guide to life in the pre-apocalypse, The Unreality of Memory collects profound and prophetic essays on the Internet age’s media-saturated disaster coverage and our addiction to viewing and discussing the world’s ills. We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase “Did you see?” The feeling that we’re living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gotten—and each new catastrophe distracts us from the last. The Unreality of Memory collects provocative, searching essays on disaster culture, climate anxiety, and our mounting collective sense of doom. In this new collection, acclaimed poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert explores our obsessions with disasters past and future, from the sinking of the Titanic to Chernobyl, from witch hunts to the plague. These deeply researched, prophetic meditations question how the world will end—if indeed it will—and why we can’t stop fantasizing about it. Can we avoid repeating history? Can we understand our moment from inside the moment? With The Unreality of Memory, Gabbert offers a hauntingly perceptive analysis of our new ways of being and a means of reconciling ourselves to this unreal new world. "A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery.” *—Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less
Swell
Author: LIZ. CLARK
Publisher: Patagonia
ISBN: 9781952338229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Patagonia
ISBN: 9781952338229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Voyage Out
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3753418234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
'The Voyage Out' was Virginia Woolf's first novel. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway. Two of the other characters were modelled after important figures in Woolf's life.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3753418234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
'The Voyage Out' was Virginia Woolf's first novel. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway. Two of the other characters were modelled after important figures in Woolf's life.