Mrs. Dalloway /
By: Woolf, Virginia [author.].
Contributor(s): Showalter, Elaine [writer of introduction and notes.] | McNichol, Stella [editor.].
Series: Penguin classics: Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2000Description: lv, 232 pages : map ; 20 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780241371947; 9780241371947:.Subject(s): Middle-aged women -- Fiction | Married women -- Fiction | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction | First loves -- Fiction | Suicide victims -- Fiction | Psychological fiction
| Domestic fiction | London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction | London (England) -- Social life and customs -- FictionGenre/Form: English fiction -- 20th century.DDC classification: 823.912 Action note: Self-Renewing 2018Summary: Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches it glittering climax.Summary: Elegantly interweaving her characters' complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway' continues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time, space, madness and regret. Past, present, and future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh, and dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly-approaching adulthood. In another part of London, war veteran Septimus Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness, slowly spiralling towards self-annihilation. Their experiences mingling, yet never quite meeting, Virginia Woolf masterfully portrays a serendipitous unity of inner lives, converging as the party reaches its glittering climax.
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This annotated edition originally published 1992. Reprinted in Penguin Classics 2000. Originally published: London : Hogarth Press, 1925.
Includes bibliographical references.
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches it glittering climax.
Elegantly interweaving her characters' complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway' continues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time, space, madness and regret. Past, present, and future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh, and dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly-approaching adulthood. In another part of London, war veteran Septimus Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness, slowly spiralling towards self-annihilation. Their experiences mingling, yet never quite meeting, Virginia Woolf masterfully portrays a serendipitous unity of inner lives, converging as the party reaches its glittering climax.
Self-Renewing 2018 UoY