Length15h 6m
About this audiobook
The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's astonishing first novel—a work that began as a traditional sea voyage and evolved into a profound exploration of consciousness, feminism, and the fragile line between awakening and annihilation.
Rachel Vinrace, a sheltered twenty-four-year-old, embarks on her father's ship bound for South America, as innocent of the world as a child . Under the care of her sharp-eyed aunt Helen, she begins to emerge from the ignorance imposed by her Victorian upbringing. But this is no ordinary journey to adulthood. A sudden, disturbing kiss from a married politician named Richard Dalloway shatters Rachel's innocence, forcing her to confront the predatory nature of a world where men hold all the power.
In a remote hotel perched on the edge of the jungle, Rachel meets Terence Hewet, a young writer who sees her as an equal. As they fall in love, Woolf gives us some of her most beautiful writing about the mind's interior life—the "fugitive" quality of thought, the thrill of intellectual companionship, the terror of true intimacy. But just as Rachel dares to imagine a future as her own woman, a mysterious fever descends, and the voyage takes a dark and unforgettable turn.
Haunting and lyrical, this is Woolf's most direct confrontation with the forces that silence women: a novel where the search for self ends not in marriage, but in something far more mysterious, and where the young heroine's struggle to become "I, I, I" remains one of modernism's most powerful statements on female consciousness.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, General Fiction, Literary Classics
Length15 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter I
15Chapter XV
2Chapter II
16Chapter XVI
3Chapter III
17Chapter XVII
4Chapter IV
18Chapter XVIII
5Chapter V
19Chapter XIX
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6Chapter VI
20Chapter XX
7Chapter VII
21Chapter XXI
8Chapter VIII
22Chapter XXII
9Chapter IX
23Chapter XXIII
10Chapter X
24Chapter XXIV
11Chapter XI
25Chapter XXV
12Chapter XII
26Chapter XXVI
13Chapter XIII
27Chapter XXVII
14Chapter XIV
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