num_pages: 224
description: This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more. For it is the feeling behind these daily events that gives Mrs. Dalloway its texture and richness and makes it so memorable. Foreword by Maureen Howard. "Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. If the novel before Mrs. Dalloway aspired to immensities of scope and scale, to heroic journeys across vast landscapes, with Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf insisted that it could also locate the enormous within the everyday; that a life of errands and party-giving was every bit as viable a subject as any life lived anywhere; and that should any human act in any novel seem unimportant, it has merely been inadequately observed. The novel as an art form has not been the same since. "Mrs. Dalloway also contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English, and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." --Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours Annotation Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is the inspiration for Michael Cunningham's The Hours , the award-winning novel and Oscar-nominated film. A 1925 landmark of modernist fiction that follows an the wife of an MP around London as she prepares for her party that afternoon. Direct and vivid in its telling of details, the novel shifts from the consciousness of Clarissa Dalloway to that of others, including a shell-shocked veteran of World War I whose destiny briefly intersects with hers. The feelings that loom behind such mundane events as buying flowers -- the social alliances, the exchanges with shopkeepers, the fact of death -- give Mrs. Dalloway its texture and richness. Editorial Reviews gt-product-pods-reviews-collaps
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: UBS Publishers Distributors