The Voyage Out. The Years

Virginia Woolf’s first book—“Out to Sea”—is a traditional-form novel, but even within it we can see the features that would later make the writer famous: an innovative narrative style, проникнення into the inner world of the characters, and elegant prose. Young Rachel sets off on a sea cruise from London to a resort on the coast of South America. She is a free spirit, far from the prejudices and conventions of society, the world of politics, and strong feelings. And this journey will become for Rachel a time of discoveries: about herself, about others, and about life.

The novel “Years” is a series of portraits and sketches from the lives of three generations of a British family against the backdrop of a changing world in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, where the external and the internal, the social and the personal intertwine. Gasoline engines replace horses, electric lamps replace gas, the First World War breaks out and the British Empire falls apart, and against the background of world-historical events the destinies of the Pargeter family unfold—moments of closeness and alienation, anxieties and triumphs. This novel became the most famous during the writer’s lifetime, making it onto The New York Times bestseller list.