Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway

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'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.
Review
`'As an edition for enriching one's personal reading or for use in discussion with students, I cannot think of a better one. And at L4.99 a copy, I wholeheartedly recommend it!'' Virginia Woolf Bulletin, No. 6, january 2001
About the Author
Virginia Woolf is by reputation one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. David Bradshaw is at Worcester College, Oxford.

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