The Voyage Out

by Virginia Woolf · 1915

Woolf's first novel: a sheltered young woman sails to South America and awakens to love, ideas, and mortality.

Books mentioned in The Voyage Out (9)

• Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley: “"I feel that there's almost everything one wants in 'Adonais.'" "Read 'Adonais' by all means," Richard conceded.”
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: “none of the books she read, from _Wuthering Heights_ to _Man and Superman_, and the plays of Ibsen”
• Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw: “from _Wuthering Heights_ to _Man and Superman_, and the plays of Ibsen”
• Henry V by William Shakespeare: “"I wonder if it's the same as mine?" "_Henry the Fifth_," said Mr.”
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “"Gibbon's _History of the Roman Empire_." "D'you mean to tell me you've reached the age of twenty-four without reading Gibbon?"”
• Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac: “seeing that it was _La Cousine bette_, bade her throw it away if she found it too horrible”
• Persuasion by Jane Austen: “'Sir Walter Elliott, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who... never took up any book but the _Baronetage_'... She does write well, doesn't she?”
• The Prelude by William Wordsworth: “She was reading the 'Prelude'... engaged in writing a short _Primer of English Literature_... a paragraph on Wordsworth.”
• Modern Love by George Meredith: “Not Gibbon; no; d'you happen to have _Modern Love_ or _John Donne_?”