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Mrs Dalloway (originally published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by an English novelist Virginia Woolf. It is her best-known novel which was included on Time's list of the 100 best English-language novels in 2005, written since Time debuted in 1923.
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"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It was one of the most famous opening lines in literature. Clarissa Dalloway, the protagonist, is a woman of the high society in England. The plot is formed in the era of post First World War which travels forward and back in time.
In the wake of the First World War and the 1918 flu pandemic, Mrs. Dalloway is preparing for a party. She is remembering those she once loved-Peter Walsh, an enigmatic and popular man when she was young, and her only close female friend Sally Seton. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock due to the death of his friend in World War and is on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax.
This edition is collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions not reflect the author's intentions, and includes a catalog of emendations, an illuminating introduction, and endnotes by the distinguished feminist critic Elaine Showalter, and a map of Mrs. Dalloway's London.
A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept of Speculation
Adaptation
- In 1997, dutch film director Marleen Gorris made a film version of Mrs Dalloway. It was adapted from Woolf's novel by British actress Eileen Atkins.
- In 2002, The Hours a related film, based on Michael Cunningham's novel of the same name. The Hours is about a single day in the lives of three women of different generations who are affected by Mrs Dalloway. Woolf is writing it, Laura is reading it, and Clarissa is living it out.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), one of the great twentieth-century authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915, and between 1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, including Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own (1929).
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Jenny Offill (foreword) is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Weather; the nationally bestselling novel Dept. of Speculation, which was one of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2014; and the novel Last Things, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Bard College and in the low residency program at the Queens University of Charlotte.
Rating: 4.2/5
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Penguin Classics (Deluxe Edition), Hogarth Press (Original Publisher,1925)
Publishing Date: January 5, 2021
Edition Language: English
Genre: First World War Historical Fiction, Fiction Urban Life, Classic American Literature
ISBN-10: 0143136135
ISBN-13: 978-0143136132
Pages: 240 (Paperback)
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