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The authorized, 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 for friends and neighbors, 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. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines 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 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

Author

Virginia Woolf; Elaine Showalter; Stella McNichol

Publisher

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781853267031

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.78 / 5 (7,614 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14