Voss
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Voss is a towering work of Australian literature, widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written in the English language. Set in mid-nineteenth-century Australia, it chronicles the doomed expedition of Johann Ulrich Voss, a German explorer driven by obsession and hubris, as he attempts to cross the continent — a journey that becomes an extraordinary meditation on ambition, isolation, and the human spirit. Patrick White draws a haunting parallel narrative between Voss and Laura Trevelyan, a young Sydney woman with whom he shares a profound, almost mystical connection despite their physical separation. Written in White's characteristically dense and visionary prose, the novel uncovers the psychological depths of its characters against the vast, indifferent Australian wilderness. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, White's masterwork remains an essential cornerstone of world literature.
Author: Patrick White
Format: Paperback
Published: 1966, Penguin Modern Classics
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Voss is a towering work of Australian literature, widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written in the English language. Set in mid-nineteenth-century Australia, it chronicles the doomed expedition of Johann Ulrich Voss, a German explorer driven by obsession and hubris, as he attempts to cross the continent — a journey that becomes an extraordinary meditation on ambition, isolation, and the human spirit. Patrick White draws a haunting parallel narrative between Voss and Laura Trevelyan, a young Sydney woman with whom he shares a profound, almost mystical connection despite their physical separation. Written in White's characteristically dense and visionary prose, the novel uncovers the psychological depths of its characters against the vast, indifferent Australian wilderness. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, White's masterwork remains an essential cornerstone of world literature.