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This title is presented with introductions by Valentine Cunningham & Carol Ann Duffy In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to give that evening As she readies her house she is flooded with memories & re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life ...

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 & regret This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella Mc Nichol with an introduction & notes by Elaine Showalter Past present & future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923 Clarissa Dalloway elegant & vivacious is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh & dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly-approaching adulthood In another part of London war veteran Septimus Smith is shell-shocked & 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 Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of ' The Bloomsbury Group' This informal collective of artists & writers which included Lytton Strachey & Roger Fry exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel The Waves (1931) She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism & biography including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) & A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay If you enjoyed Mrs Dalloway you might like James Joyce's Ulysses also available in Penguin Classics' The book's celebrated stream of consciousness is one of the few genuine innovations in the history of the novel' New Yorker ...

On a perfect June morning Clarissa Dalloway
- fashionable worldly wealthy an accomplished hostess
- sets off to buy flowers

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In Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf explores the events of one day impression by impression minute by minute as Clarissa Dalloway's & Septimus Smith's worlds look set to collide
- this classic novel is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range' She had a perpetual sense as she watched the taxi cabs of being out out far out to sea & alone; she always had the feeling that it was very very dangerous to live even one day' On a June morning in 1923 Clarissa Dalloway the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament is preparing for a party she is giving that evening As she walks through London buying flowers observing life her thoughts are of the past & she remembers the time when she was as young as her own daughter Elizabeth her romance with Peter Walsh now recently returned from India; & the friends of her youth Elsewhere in London Septimus Smith is being driven mad by shell shock As the day draws to its end his world & Clarissa's collide in unexpected ways In Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf explored the events of one day impression by impression minute by minute & recorded the feel of life itself' One of the most moving revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham' Woolf is Modern She feels close to us' Jeanette Winterson Born in 1882 Virginia Woolf was the daughter of the editor & critic Leslie Stephen & suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother in 1895 & her step-sister Stella in 1897 leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life With her sister the painter Vanessa Bell she was drawn into the company of writers & artists such as Lytton Strachey & Roger Fry later known as the Bloomsbury Group Among them she met Leonard Woolf whom she married in 1912 & together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917 Her first novel The Voyage Out appeared in 1915 & her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925) the historical fantasy Orlando (1928) written for Vita Sackville-West the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931) & Between the Acts (1941) Woolf lived an energetic life reviewing & writing & dividing her time between London & the Sussex Downs In 1941 fearing another attack of mental illness she drowned herself
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Tracing a day in the life of society hostess Clarissa Dalloway Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist First published in 1925 MRS DALLOWAY is her first complete rendering of what Woolf described as the 'luminous envelope' of consciousness a dazzling display of the mind's inside as it plays over the brilliant surface & darker depths of reality ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Merry M Pawlowski Professor & Chair Department of English California State University Bakersfield Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form & reflects a genuine humanity & a concern with the experiences that both enrich & stultify existence Society hostess Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party Her thoughts & sensations on that one day & the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central protagonists Clarissa's life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warren Smith whose madness escalates as his life draws toward inevitable suicide ...

' 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 & Septimus She is middle-aged & prosperous with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young poor & driven to hatred of himself & the whole human race Yet both share a terror of existence & sense the pull of death The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style in a lyrical & haunting language which has made this from its publication in 1925 one of her most popular novels ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

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