Mrs Dalloway
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
On a radiant June morning in post-WWI London, Clarissa Dalloway steps out to buy flowers for the party she is hosting that evening — and in that single day, Virginia Woolf constructs an entire universe of memory, desire, and quiet devastation. Mrs Dalloway chronicles the parallel lives of Clarissa, a society hostess haunted by the roads not taken, and Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked war veteran unraveling at the seams, whose fate becomes an invisible mirror to her own. With razor-sharp precision, Woolf captures the inner tides of consciousness that flow beneath the polished surface of English upper-class life, rendering the mundane transcendent and the private catastrophic. Published in 1925, Mrs Dalloway stands as one of the towering achievements of literary modernism, cementing Woolf's reputation as a supreme architect of the stream-of-consciousness technique. Her prose moves with the fluidity of thought itself — associative, lyrical, and devastating — weaving together past and present with the chime of Big Ben marking time's relentless march. Beneath its elegant surface, the novel argues fiercely against the social and psychological repressions imposed on women, the mentally ill, and the war-broken, making it as urgent and searching today as when it first appeared. For readers who have never encountered it, Mrs Dalloway promises an experience that will permanently alter how they understand a single moment in time.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
On a radiant June morning in post-WWI London, Clarissa Dalloway steps out to buy flowers for the party she is hosting that evening — and in that single day, Virginia Woolf constructs an entire universe of memory, desire, and quiet devastation. Mrs Dalloway chronicles the parallel lives of Clarissa, a society hostess haunted by the roads not taken, and Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked war veteran unraveling at the seams, whose fate becomes an invisible mirror to her own. With razor-sharp precision, Woolf captures the inner tides of consciousness that flow beneath the polished surface of English upper-class life, rendering the mundane transcendent and the private catastrophic. Published in 1925, Mrs Dalloway stands as one of the towering achievements of literary modernism, cementing Woolf's reputation as a supreme architect of the stream-of-consciousness technique. Her prose moves with the fluidity of thought itself — associative, lyrical, and devastating — weaving together past and present with the chime of Big Ben marking time's relentless march. Beneath its elegant surface, the novel argues fiercely against the social and psychological repressions imposed on women, the mentally ill, and the war-broken, making it as urgent and searching today as when it first appeared. For readers who have never encountered it, Mrs Dalloway promises an experience that will permanently alter how they understand a single moment in time.