ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the first novel of Virginia Woolf?
A
The Waves
B
To the Light House
C
Jacob’s Room
D
The Voyage out
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth.

Detailed explanation-2: -Meanwhile, Virginia began work on her first novel, Melymbrosia, that eventually became The Voyage Out (1915).

Detailed explanation-3: -The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf was the first novel by this iconic English author, published in Britain in 1915 and in the U.S. in 1920. Written at a point when Woolf was suffering from an acute period of mental illness during which there was a suicide attempt, the novel proceeded painfully slowly.

Detailed explanation-4: -In her first novel, The Voyage Out, written between 1904 and 1913, Woolf explored the themes that pervade all her books: mothering, madness, and the universal human need for a meaningful therapeutic mirroring of selfcontinuity in a world that can, at any moment and for no reason, inflict pain, loss, and powerlessness.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mrs Dalloway, 1925. A Room of One’s Own, 1929. To the Lighthouse, 1927. The Waves, 1931. Orlando, 1928. 04-May-2017

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