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Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

  • 224 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1925
  • 476 editions
  • Free to read
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1 About this book

Virginia Woolf’s novel chronicles a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a politician’s wife in 1920s London, as she prepares to host a party that evening. The narrative follows Clarissa’s thoughts (and sometimes those of people she meets) as she goes about her errands, and events in the day remind her of her youth and friendships from the past. As the book progresses characters from the past emerge, igniting old feelings and making Clarissa question the life she has created for herself.

Mrs. Dalloway became the inspiration for Michael Cunningham’s 1998 novel The Hours.

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  • Classics
  • Psychological fiction
  • Romance Ingles
  • Married women
  • Married women in fiction
  • Regret
  • Middle-aged women
  • First loves

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3 About Virginia Woolf

1882–1941

Adeline Virginia Woolf ( "wolf"; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device. Virginia Woolf was born in South Kensington, London, into an affluent and intellectual family as the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen.

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