The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library) in Never too Late to Read Classics

Apr 08, 2015 Chrissie rated it liked it

Shelves: 2015-read, classics, travel, great-britain, audible-us, humor

ETA: There is in fact a reason for Woolf including so many characters, and there is another theme too - how people react to a life changing event, in this case (view spoiler). Woolf looks at people's behavior, the behavior of family members, close friends and other acquaintances too. All these people were a necessary part of the book. You can observe Woolf observing people and our different ways of behaving. This book does not leave you when completed! No, it's quite a good ...more

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May 17, 2013 Laura rated it it was ok

Shelves: fiction-20th-century, british-literature, kindle, e-books, gutenberg, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, mtbr-challenge-2015

Free download available at Project Gutenberg.

Opening lines:

As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers' clerks will have to make flying leaps into the mud; young lady typists will have to fidget behind you. In the streets of London where beauty goes unregarded, eccentricity must pay the penalty, and it is better not to be very tall, to wear a long blue cloak, or to beat the air with your left h ...more

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Dec 30, 2020 Dan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Some profound passages

Here is a little world full of interesting people with interesting thoughts. They consider the big questions and meander quite near the big answers.

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