Mrs Dalloway

Author(s): Virginia Woolf

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Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister," the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time, and in and out of the characters' minds, to construct a complete image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure.


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With introductions by Carol Ann Duffy and Valentine Cunningham 20031030

" 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

 

 

"The feeling that will most dominate your heart, soul, and mind upon finishing 'Mrs Dalloway',  is that of incomplete sadness. Not only will you be stunned (speechless perhaps) at its written beauty, but lost. As if you were on a ship out at sea, and suddenly land disappeared- it is the confusion at where you took a wrong turn. Mrs Dalloway is one of the most brillant bookd I've ever read, and it is nothing short of genius. Everything in that slim novel is worth something, everything means something. Maybe this is what leads to the incomplete sadness, the knowledge that you may never completely understand 'Mrs Dalloway'. But you can try. You can read it a hundred times over and never get bored, or tired (speaking from experience.) I will never shut up about Virginia Woolf. Calling her genius feels wrong, as though she deserves a word more powerful. Virginia Woolf is divine. Please read 'Mrs Dalloway.'

-Ella

 

Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. From 1915, when she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf maintained an astonishing output of fiction, literary criticism, essays and biography. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917 they founded The Hogarth Press. Virginia Woolf suffered a series of mental breakdowns throughout her life, and on 28 March 1941 she committed suicide.

General Fields

  • : 9780099470458
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Arrow
  • : 0.156
  • : June 2012
  • : 198mm X 131mm X 13mm
  • : October 2013
  • : books

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  • : Virginia Woolf
  • : Virginia Woolf
  • : 823.912
  • : 823.912
  • : English
  • : English
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  • : Paperback
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