Mrs. Dalloway: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Woolf, Virginia

ISBN 10: 0143136135 / ISBN 13: 9780143136132

Published by Penguin Classics, 2021

The book has been read but is in good condition. It has very minimal damage to the cover, including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. The binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. There are no missing pages. See the seller's listing for full details and a description of any imperfections. Seller Inventory # WMEKV.0143136135.G

Synopsis:

A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf''s engulfing portrait of a day in one woman''s life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

First published in 1925 during the Bloomsbury Group''s heyday, Virginia Woolf''s masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway is making its glamorous Penguin Classics debut as a deluxe edition, with a foreword by bestselling author Jenny Offill. Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and is on the brink of madness. Smith''s day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf''s masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present, and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.

About the Author: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), one of the great twentieth-century authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915, and between 1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, including Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own (1929).

Jenny Offill (foreword) is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Weather; the nationally bestselling novel Dept. of Speculation, which was one of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2014; and the novel Last Things, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Bard College and in the low residency program at Queens University of Charlotte.

Elaine Showalter (introduction, notes) is Professor of English, Emerita, at Princeton University, and the author of many works of feminist literary criticism.

Stella McNichol (editor) was the author of several critical studies on Virginia Woolf.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Mrs. Dalloway: (Penguin Classics Deluxe ...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good