Voss: A Novel
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy.
A landmark of Australian literature, Voss is an ambitious, visionary novel that chronicles the doomed 1840s expedition of Johann Ulrich Voss, a German explorer who sets out to cross the uncharted Australian continent. Patrick White constructs a sweeping psychological and spiritual epic, drawing a profound parallel between Voss's obsessive, near-messianic drive to conquer the wilderness and his intense, telepathic bond with Laura Trevelyan, a young woman he leaves behind in Sydney. The novel unfolds with a dense, lyrical intensity, presenting the brutal landscape of the Australian interior as both a physical adversary and a mirror for the human soul's capacity for pride, suffering, and transcendence. White's prose is richly demanding, rewarding patient readers with one of the most searching meditations on ambition, isolation, and the nature of heroism in twentieth-century fiction. Winner of the inaugural Miles Franklin Award in 1957, Voss remains the cornerstone of White's Nobel Prize–winning body of work and an enduring masterpiece of world literature.
Author: Patrick White
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd and The Book Society Ltd
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy.
A landmark of Australian literature, Voss is an ambitious, visionary novel that chronicles the doomed 1840s expedition of Johann Ulrich Voss, a German explorer who sets out to cross the uncharted Australian continent. Patrick White constructs a sweeping psychological and spiritual epic, drawing a profound parallel between Voss's obsessive, near-messianic drive to conquer the wilderness and his intense, telepathic bond with Laura Trevelyan, a young woman he leaves behind in Sydney. The novel unfolds with a dense, lyrical intensity, presenting the brutal landscape of the Australian interior as both a physical adversary and a mirror for the human soul's capacity for pride, suffering, and transcendence. White's prose is richly demanding, rewarding patient readers with one of the most searching meditations on ambition, isolation, and the nature of heroism in twentieth-century fiction. Winner of the inaugural Miles Franklin Award in 1957, Voss remains the cornerstone of White's Nobel Prize–winning body of work and an enduring masterpiece of world literature.