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Mrs Dalloway

By Virginia Woolf
Series: Penguin Essentials
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Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is centred on a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a high-society woman in post-World War I London. As she plans a party, the novel delves into her thoughts and memories, weaving in the perspectives of other characters whose paths intersect with hers. Through its stream-of-consciousness narrative, the book explores themes of time, identity, and the complexity of human experience.
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Mrs Dalloway

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a party she is giving that evening. As she walks through London, buying flowers, observing life, her thoughts are of the past and she remembers the time when she was as young as her own daughter Elizabeth, and her romance with Peter Walsh.

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New edition of the Penguin Essential about the events of one June day in 1923...

Mrs Dalloway tells the story of Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, on a June morning in 1923. She is preparing for a party she is giving that evening. As she walks through London, buying flowers and observing life, her thoughts wander to the past. She remembers the time when she was as young as her daughter, Elizabeth, her romance with Peter Walsh, who has recently returned from India, and her friends of youth.

Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is being driven mad by shell shock. As the day progresses, his world and Clarissa's intersect in unexpected ways.

'She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.'

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Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is praised for its emotional depth and revolutionary impact on 20th-century literature, described vividly by Michael Cunningham. Jeanette Winterson highlights Woolf's modern feel, emphasising her continued relevance and closeness to contemporary readers.

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ISBN: 9780241956793

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 April 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 119g

Pages: 208

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Penguin Essentials Virginia Woolf

About the Author

Born in 1882, Virginia Woolf was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. With her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, she was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, later known as the Bloomsbury Group. Among them she met Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912, and together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West, the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), and Between the Acts (1941). Woolf lived an energetic life, reviewing and writing and dividing her time between London and the Sussex Downs. In 1941, fearing another attack of mental illness, she drowned herself.

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