num_pages: 194
description: 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.
language: English
title: Mrs. Dalloway
titlecomplete: Mrs. Dalloway
characters: Peter Walsh, Hugh Whitbread, Doris Kilman, Lucrezia Smith, Sally Seton, Septimus Warren Smith, Elizabeth Dalloway, Sir William Bradshaw, Clarissa Dalloway, Richard Dalloway
genres: 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, School, Literature, English Literature, Classics, Feminism, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 291434
places: England, London, England, United Kingdom
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt