Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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’s Park 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 of existence, 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
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Language English
Rating Great
Award Publishing Triangle’s 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels
Subject Fiction / General; London (England)
BookID 8503

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