The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naïve young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast. In symbolic, lyrical, and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to face life intellectually and emotionally. Its wit and exquisiteness and its profound depth and insight into humanity will capture the imagination of the listener.

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Wonderful reader

Juliet Stevens has a beautiful voice and reads expressively but with restraint. Just right for this novel.

Great novel and excellent presentation

I can’t imagine anyone better to give voice to this novel than Juliette Stevenson; every character came alive in her reading of this first novel of Virginia Woolf.
And the novel itself? How is it possible that this is her first? It’s powerful and real. The writing is exquisite. Her observations of the world and her fellow countrymen are acute and accurate and uncanny and many still hold true. She was far ahead of her times.

It sneaks up on you.

The subject is consciousness. The setting is the English upper middle class, approximately 1910, on a long vacation in South America. The placid colonialist attitudes are well ensconced. Within these boundaries, with impeccable prose, we learn of the interior and exterior lives of many people. There are no heroics. There are those things we call love, and more. There is texture, and substance, woven into language. You, too, will take the voyage out. Juliet Stevenson is one of my favorite narrators.

Engaging

The story is engaging, nonetheless a bit confusing as many characters disappeared and the end was cute abrupt, but you can feel that Virginia Woolf was experimenting in this amazing first novel of hers. The narration is impeccable!

Narrator was VERY impressive

Enjoyed the story. LOVED the narrator. She gave different tones to all the speakers and it really brought the book alive.