{"product_id":"mrs-dalloway-by-virginia-woolf-9780156628709","title":"Mrs Dalloway","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 \u003cem\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/em\u003e—a landmark of psychological fiction—reshape our sense of ordinary life and reshaped English literature as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643071807724,"sku":"9780156628709","price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/d24d940c2c10a972f248e9a69f3d976f.jpg?v=1779170059","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/mrs-dalloway-by-virginia-woolf-9780156628709","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}