Out to Sea. Years

Virginia Woolf's first book — "Out to Sea" — is a traditionally structured novel, but it already shows the traits that made the writer famous: an innovative narrative style, penetration into the inner world of the characters, and elegant prose.

Young Rachel embarks on a sea cruise from London to a resort on the South American coast. She is a free spirit, far removed from the prejudices and conventions of society, the world of politics, and strong emotions. This journey will be a complete discovery for Rachel: about herself, others, and 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 the changing world of the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth, in which the external and internal, the public and the personal intertwine. Gasoline engines replace horses, electric lamps replace gas, the First World War ignites, and the British Empire disintegrates, while the fates of the Pardjiter family unfold against the backdrop of world historical events — moments of closeness and alienation, anxieties and triumphs. This novel became the most famous during the writer's lifetime, making it to the "New York Times" bestseller list.