Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Classics)

Author: Woolf, Virginia

Brand: Vintage Classics

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 208

Release Date: 05-02-2004

Part Number: 9780099470458

Details: Product Description
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM AND CAROL ANN DUFFYIn this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.
Review
Mrs Dalloway 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

A beautiful piece of writing -- Will Self ―
Guardian

I think
To The Lighthouse and
Mrs Dalloway are sheer magic -- Eileen Atkins ―
Daily Express

Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as
Mrs Dalloway and
To the Lighthouse showed how experimental writing could reshape our sense of ordinary life. Taking unremarkable materials - preparations for a genteel party, a day on a bourgeois family holiday - they trace the flow of associations and ideas that we call "consciousness". ―
Guardian
About the Author
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including
Mrs Dalloway,
To the Lighthouse,
Orlando, and
The Waves.

EAN: 9780099470458

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.0 x 0.6 inches

Languages: English