num_pages: 261
description: mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single day in June in London 1923. Clarissa Dallowway, the wife of a conservative member of the parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent Park chatterign in Greek. There seems to be nothin gexcept perhaps London to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle aged, and prosperous, with a cheltered 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 writing style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1923, one of her most popular novels.
language: English
title: Mrs Dalloway
titlecomplete: Mrs Dalloway
characters: Sally Seton, Sir William Bradshaw, Lucrezia Smith, Hugh Whitbread, Septimus Warren Smith, Clarissa Dalloway, Doris Kilman, Peter Walsh, Elizabeth Dalloway, Richard Dalloway
genres: Fiction, English Literature, British Literature, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, Feminism, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 291528
places: England, United Kingdom, London, England
publisher: Oxford University Press