Mrs Dalloway
(Oxford World’s Classics)
Virginia Woolf
‘Fear no more the heat of the sun.’ Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent’sPark chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror ofexistence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf’s famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.
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| ISBN | 9780199536009 |
| Genre | Award Winner; Fiction |
| Publication Date | 17-Apr-08 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 256 |
| Award | Publishing Triangle’s 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels |
| Notes | Look for many editions, publishers and covers. |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Great |
| Award | Publishing Triangle’s 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels |
| Subject | Fiction / General; London (England) |
| BookID | 8503 |
