Virginia Woolf's extraordinary first novel, published in 1915 after she had suffered a succession of severe mental crises, tells the story of a young Englishwoman, Rachel Vinrace, and her long sea voyage to South America, her engagement to Terence Hewett and her sudden illness and death. This definitive edition contains the original Hogarth Press text as overseen by the author.

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Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. From 1915 onward, she maintained an astonishing output of fiction, literary criticism, essays and biography. She married Leonard Woolf and in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press. She died in 1941.

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