As the title suggests the novel deals with the author’s journey into an unknown land and like the first novel of any other writer or writers it lacks in strength and conviction. It is her first novel and was published in 1915. By reading them the students will be able to form a good idea of her art. Brief outline sketches of her major novels are given below. But she is primarily known as a novelist and her reputation is based on a few novels, which are great works of art. She wrote a number of short stories and some biographies, one fanciful, and a fragment on the life of Robert Browning, narrated through the imagined memories of Flush, Elizabeth Barrett’s dog (name of Browning’s wife) and the other a full-length biography of Roger Fry.
Her best works of criticism are The Common Reader I, The Common Reader II and The Death of the Moth and the Moment. She earned at first the reputation of a critic of great insight and sound literary taste and judgement. After her marriage she wrote profusely for the Hogarth Press, which brought out the works of distinguished men of letters of the day. She started her literary career by writing articles and essays for literary journals. Virginia Woolf comes from a respectable family of high literary and cultural standards.
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