Mrs Dalloway
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  • Published: 13 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241436271
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $19.99

Mrs Dalloway

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31 Jan 2023
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13 Nov 2020
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4 Jun 2019
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18 Jun 2018
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12 Jun 2012
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12 Aug 2025
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2 Feb 2021
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19 Sep 2000
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26 Sep 2019
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28 May 1993
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A reissue of the PMC edition of Woolf's masterpiece, now with a new jacket

'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham

Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.
  • Published: 13 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241436271
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $19.99
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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

One of the few genuine innovations in the history of the novel

New Yorker

One of her greatest achievements, a book whose afterlife continues to inspire new generations of writers and readers

Guardian
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