The Voyage Out (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Voyage Out (version 2), credited to Virginia Woolf, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf. Read in English by Lynne T Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway. Two of the other characters were modelled after important figures in Woolf's life. St John Hirst is a fictional portrayal of Lytton Strachey and Helen Ambrose is to some extent inspired by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell.[7] Rachel's journey from a cloistered life in a London suburb to freedom, challenging intellectual discourse and discovery very likely reflects Woolf's own journey from a repressive household to the intellectual stimulation of the Bloomsbury Group.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Voyage Out (version 2)
• Author credits: Virginia Woolf
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 14:31:44

Catalogue topics

• travel
• South America
• voyage
• intellectal growth

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 01 - Chapter I — 34:58
2. 02 - Chapter II — 35:05
3. 03 - Chapter III — 37:17
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 39:08
5. 05 - Chapter V — 19:25
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 22:54
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 19:05
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 19:12
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 47:53
10. 10 - Chapter X — 31:31
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 30:05
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 46:09
13. 13 - Chapter XIII — 14:49
14. 14 - Chapter XIV — 41:11
15. 15 - Chapter XV — 34:26
16. 16 - Chapter XVI — 35:37
17. 17 - Chapter XVII — 48:08
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 12:01
19. 19 - Chapter XIX — 44:57
20. 20 - Chapter XX — 29:29
21. 21 - Chapter XXI — 30:47
22. 22 - Chapter XXII — 32:55
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 21:21
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV — 28:14

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