num_pages: 146
description: Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and 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 characteristics of the central protagonists. Clarissa's life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those in the day of Septimus Warren Smith.The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's fourth novel establish her as a writer of profound talent.
language: English
title: Mrs Dalloway
titlecomplete: Mrs Dalloway
characters: Sally Seton, Elizabeth Dalloway, Hugh Whitbread, Doris Kilman, Peter Walsh, Septimus Warren Smith, Richard Dalloway, Sir William Bradshaw, Clarissa Dalloway, Lucrezia Smith
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, English Literature, British Literature, School, Literary Fiction, Feminism, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 291447
places: London, England, United Kingdom, England
publisher: Wordsworth Classics