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Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia WoolfA stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life. "Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of 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. In a novel in which she perfects the interior monologue and recapitulates the life cycle in the hours of the day, from first light to the dark of night, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, impression by impression, minute by minute, the feel of life itself. "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 b

Who reads Mrs. Dalloway?

Author

Virginia Woolf

Publisher

The University of Adelaide Library

Published

1925

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Classics

Rating

3.78 / 5 (171 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14