Mrs Dalloway

Author: Woolf, Virginia

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 15 August 2022 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Wordsworth Collector's Editions' series.

Hardback | 176 pages
135 x 184 x 22 | 216g

Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence.

Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and 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.