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Mrs Dalloway

By Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway follows a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for a party in post-WWI London. While attending to her social duties, Clarissa reflects on her youth, her marriage, and the impact of the war, providing an intimate exploration of memory, choice, and ageing. Through a cast of interconnected characters, Virginia Woolf delves deep into ordinary experiences, crafting a groundbreaking work of psychological fiction.
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This novel will appeal to readers of literary and psychological fiction, those interested in early 20th-century British society, and admirers of stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques.

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Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more. It is the feelings that loom behind those daily events--the social alliances, the shopkeeper's exchange, the fact of death--that give Mrs. Dalloway texture and richness.

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The authorised, original edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece and one of the most "moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century" (Michael Cunningham), with a foreword by Maureen Howard.

In this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life, Mrs Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house in post-WWI London for friends and neighbours, she is flooded with remembrances of the past—the passionate loves of her carefree youth, her practical choice of husband, and the approach and retreat of war. Met with the realities of the present, Clarissa re-examines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.

From the introspective Clarissa, to the lover who never fully recovered from her rejection, to a war-ravaged stranger in the park, the characters and scope of Mrs Dalloway—a landmark of psychological fiction—reshape our sense of ordinary life and reshaped English literature as we know it.

"Perhaps her masterpiece... Exquisite and superbly constructed... Required like most writers to choose between the surface and the depths as the basis of her operations, she chooses the surface and then burrows in as far as she can." - E. M. Forster

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ISBN: 9780156628709

Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 September 1990

Country: United States

Imprint: Harcourt Paperbacks

Audience: Tertiary education

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Weight: 0g

Pages: 224

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Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Virginia Woolf

About the Author

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and Orlando.

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