Mrs. Dalloway

virginia woolf maureen howard

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.

Genres classicsfictionliteraturenovelsfeminismliterary fictionbritish literature20th centurybook clubschool

194 pages, Hardcover

First published May 14,1925

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london england, england, united kingdom,

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Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Published: October 28, 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151009985
ASIN: 0151009988
Language: English

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About the author

virginia woolf

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."