{"product_id":"9781411433441","title":"The Voyage Out (Barnes \u0026 Noble Classics Series)","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out\u003c\/i\u003e, by \u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/b\u003e, is part of the \u003ci\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of \u003ci\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiographies of the authors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFootnotes and endnotes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComments by other famous authors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStudy questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliographies for further reading \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndices \u0026amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. \u003ci\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics \u003c\/i\u003epulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe meet young, free-spirited Rachel Vinrace aboard her father's ship, the \u003ci\u003eEuphrosyne\u003c\/i\u003e, departing London for South America. Surrounded by a clutch of genteel companions—among them her aunt Helen, who judges Rachel to be \"vacillating,\" \"emotional,\" and \"more than normally incompetent for her years\"—Rachel displays a startling maturity when she finds her engagement to the writer Terence Hewet listing toward disaster. As she soon discovers, \"tragedies come in the hungry hours.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished in 1915, \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out \u003c\/i\u003eis \u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/b\u003e's first novel, and it is written in a more traditional narrative style than the one she later perfected. But this maiden voyage predicts Woolf's future triumphs in its elegant delineation of the troubles plaguing modern life and its satire of the upper class. As Rachel's peculiar fellow passengers expand their minds with the ideas of Aristotle and Shelley, they meanwhile suffer from the societal ennui that education and sophistication cannot overcome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilled with cutting insights about politics, literature, gender, and modern relationships, \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out\u003c\/i\u003e is a finely perceived impression of the overriding confusion that immediately followed World War I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePagan Harleman\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance writer and filmmaker living in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121667817712,"sku":"9781411433441","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781411433441_p0.jpg?v=1763722445","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781411433441","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}