Mrs Dalloway
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  • Published: 19 September 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141904108
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Mrs Dalloway

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VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility have made it one of her most popular works.

This edition is based on the original British edition, and is edited by Stella McNichol with an introduction and notes by Elaine Showalter. Contains a map, explanatory footnotes, suggestions for further reading of acclaimed criticisms and references, as well as a discussion of the textual notes and substantive emendations in the appendix.
  • Published: 19 September 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141904108
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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About the author

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

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Praise for Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English, and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century

Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

A beautiful piece of writing

Will Self, Guardian

I think To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway are sheer magic

Eileen Atkins, Daily Express

Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse showed how experimental writing could reshape our sense of ordinary life. Taking unremarkable materials - preparations for a genteel party, a day on a bourgeois family holiday - they trace the flow of associations and ideas that we call "consciousness".

Guardian

A beautiful ode to dignity, memory and survival

Sunday Times