Mrs Dalloway - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140623280 ISBN 13: 9780140623284

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2007

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2007-06-28 Pages: 224 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Classics On a June morning in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway. the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament. is preparing for a grand party that evening.As she walks through London. buying flowers. observing life. her thoughts are in the past. and she remembers the time when she was as young as her own daughter Elizabeth; her romance with Peter Walsh. now recently returned from India; and the friends of her youth. Elsewhere in London. Septimus Smith is being driven mad by shell shock. As the day draws to its end. his world and Clarissas collide in unexpected ways. story takes place in London in the summer of 1923 one . that is. after the end of the First World War five years . the time flashed by . as if back end of last century . Dalloway remembered a summer 1890 . when she was so young. beautiful. has...

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On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a grand party that evening.

As she walks through London, buying flowers, observing life, her thoughts are in the past, and she remembers the time when she was as young as her own daughter Elizabeth; her romance with Peter Walsh, now recently returned from India; and the friends of her youth. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is being driven mad by shell shock. As the day draws to its end, his world and Clarissa's collide in unexpected ways.

Review:

Clarissa Dalloway is civilised--without the ostentation of a socialite, but with enough distinction to attract them to her parties. She finds excess offensive, but surrounds herself with the highest quality and has an abhorrence for anything ugly or awkward. Mrs. Dalloway is as much a character study as it is a commentary on the ills and benefits society gleans from class. Through Virginia Woolf, we spend a day with Clarissa as she interacts with servants, her children, her husband, and even an ex-lover. As she plans and executes one of her celebrated parties, she reveals inner machinations incongruous with her class-defined behaviors, that ultimately enable her to transcend them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0140623280
• ISBN 13: 9780140623284
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224