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The Voyage is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Sphere on 24 December 1921, and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories. At the harbour Fenella and her grandmother say goodbye to Fenella's father and board the Picton boat; a number of everyday situations are described during the journey, which highlight a degree of tension between the rather religious grandmother and staff on the boat. At Picton they are met by Mr Penreddy with a carriage. They arrive at the grandparents's house and meet Fenella's grandfather.

The Voyage is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Sphere on 24 December 1921, and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories. At the harbour Fenella and her grandmother say goodbye to Fenella's father and board the Picton boat; a number of everyday situations are described during the journey, which highlight a degree of tension between the rather religious grandmother and staff on the boat. At Picton they are met by Mr Penreddy with a carriage.

At its heart is Rachel Vinrace, a young woman embarking on a sea voyage that becomes a profound exploration of identity, love, and the fragile boundaries between freedom and convention. Through innovative prose and keen psychological insight, Woolf captures both the beauty and unease of the human experience. By turns satirical, poignant and quietly devastating, The Voyage Out is an extraordinary meditation on youth, society and purpose.

Brought to you by Penguin. What would killing him accomplish? Nothing, mostly. Then again, neither would letting him live. When Hester is diagnosed with cancer on her fortieth birthday, she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged...

À 24 ans, Momoko s’est installée dans la grande ville, à Tokyo, pour fuir les contraintes de sa vie à la campagne. Sans y prendre garde, elle a pris le chemin que la société lui dictait : mariage, pavillon, enfants. Aujourd’hui, à 74 ans, Momoko est seule. Elle a tout le temps pour penser. Aux rêves qu’elle a eus autrefois, à l’amour, à la solitude.

This fascinating, fact-inspired fiction collection from Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling Room, is a sequence of fourteen stories about travels to, in, and from North America. With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways...

First published in 1915, The Voyage Out marked the literary debut of one of the great pioneers of the modern novel. Virginia Woolf's extraordinary narrative follows a group of lively, eccentric British tourists embarking on a sea voyage from London to South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, a shy, motherless young woman who has been taken along under the wing of her Aunt Helen, so that she may learn "how to live".

The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 1 History set her fate in stone… Murderer. Mercenary. Temptress. Trickster. Traitor. Thief. But under a hammer that falls like thunder, stone will always shatter. So with her voice she lights the forge. The Voyage of Freydis sings the silenced tale of Freydis...

"Voyage au bout de la nuit", chef d'œuvre littéraire incontesté dont Denis Poadalydès nous restitue toute la force brute, est présenté pour la première fois en version numérique (en coédition avec l'Historial de la Grande Guerre, et en accord avec Gallimard et la Succession Céline).

A party of English people is aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, a young girl, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society, books, sex, love and marriage. She is a free spirit half-caught, momentarily and passionately, by Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer who she meets in Santa Marina. But their engagement is to end abruptly, and tragically. Virginia Woolf's first novel, published in 1915, is a haunting exploration of a young woman's mind. 

"Pénélope, tu n'es pas ici par hasard. Tu veux vivre quelque chose, ton cœur brûle, ta tête t'assaille de réflexions, mais tu refuses d'aller plus loin, tu refuses de plonger. Tu restes spectatrice et tu rumines. C'est ça ton grand voyage ? Tu sais, chaque individu a un rôle à jouer. Chaque personne peut utiliser la force de son esprit pour devenir acteur de son existence et du monde qui l'entoure. Ensemble, à force de réflexions et d'actions, nous ferons de ces ruines un palais." Ceci est une odyssée. Un périple au cœur de nos doutes, de nos errances, de nos tempêtes.

"La porte du voyage sans retour" est le surnom donné à l'île de Gorée, d'où sont partis des millions d'Africains au temps de la traite des Noirs. C'est dans ce qui est en 1750 une concession française qu'un jeune homme débarque, venu au Sénégal pour étudier la flore locale. Botaniste, il caresse le rêve d'établir une encyclopédie universelle du vivant, en un siècle où l'heure est aux Lumières.

Parfois la vie se joue sur une rencontre de hasard. Lorsque sur le quai de la gare Saint-Pancras de Londres la petite Lolie heurte Sacha de plein fouet, c'est le début d'une histoire inattendue entre cet homme au passé torturé et Anouk, à l'avenir incertain. De l'Angleterre à la Russie, en passant par Israël, Paris, Venise ou encore Istanbul, un voyage mouvementé et personnel les attend. Par le biais d'une correspondance de mails, Anouk et Sacha vont apprendre à faire connaissance, s'apprivoiser, se confier.

"A Voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms" is a novel by Jonathan Swift: Despite his earlier intention of remaining at home, Gulliver returns to sea as the captain of a merchantman, as he is bored with his employment as a surgeon. On this voyage, he is forced to find new additions to his crew who, he believes, have turned against him. His crew then commits mutiny. After keeping him contained for some time, they resolve to leave him on the first piece of land they come across, and continue as pirates.

Le voyage d'Octavio est celui d'un analphabète vénézuélien qui, à travers d'épiques tribulations, va se réapproprier son passé et celui de son pays. Le destin voudra qu'il tombe amoureux de Venezuela, une comédienne de Maracaibo, qui lui apprend à écrire. Mais la bande de brigands "chevaleresques", menée par Rutilio Alberto Guerra, pour laquelle il travaille, organisera un cambriolage précisément au domicile de sa bien-aimée. Avant que ne débute un grand voyage dans le pays qui porte son nom.

When Urien and his sailing companions begin their voyage, it is to places unknown and, perhaps, only dreamed. This allegorical masterpiece from André Gide, a key figure of French letters, deftly illustrates the techniques and doctrine of the Symbolist movement - and the dual nature of Gide’s own psyche. Written at a crucial time in his artistic development, this imaginative work signals his gradual abandonment of acetic celibacy toward an embrace of pleasure and carnal desires, revealing a Gide more transparent in this early work than in his mature writings.

Phileas Fogg, der exzentrische englische Gentleman, schließt eine waghalsige Wette ab: Er will die Erde in 80 Tagen umrunden – und kein Hindernis, kein Sturm, keine Verspätung darf ihn aufhalten! Begleitet von seinem treuen Diener Passepartout reist er durch exotische Länder, erlebt Gefahren, Wunder und die Jagd seines Lebens.

Just as the narrator starts the ascent of his balloon, a stranger jumps into its car. The unexpected passenger's only intent is to take the balloon as high as it will go, even at the cost of his and pilot's life. The intruder takes advantage of the long journey to recount the history of incidents related to the epic of lighter-than-air travel.

From the journal of William Bradford, this audio production dramatizes the trials and tribulations of the Pilgrims and the events that lead up to their sailing from Southampton, England in the year 1620. "Jerry Robbins and the Colonial Radio Players bring to life the persecution and betrayals of the Puritans, while still in Europe, that compelled their flight to the New World. [It] is historically correct, and remains both exciting and fun. This audio presentation has a full cast and music score, with lots of sound effects, engaging your attention and imagination." (Dean Carlisle)

Presented as narratives of his own South Sea experiences, Melville's first two books had roused incredulity in many readers. Their disbelief, he declared, had been "the main inducement" in altering his plan for his third book, 'Mardi: and a Voyage Thither' (1849). Melville wanted to exploit the "rich poetical material" of Polynesia and also to escape feeling "irked, cramped, & fettered" by a narrative of facts. "I began to feel ... a longing to plume my pinions for a flight," he told his English publisher.