Mrs Dalloway - (Vintage Classics) by Virginia Woolf (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Celebrate the 100th birthday of a groundbreaking novel with this limited run special edition.

Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to give a party.

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a 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.

This special edition features the original cover created by Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, andthe original text first published by The Hogarth Press.

Review Quotes

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--

A beautiful piece of writing--Guardian

I think To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway are sheer magic--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

A beautiful ode to dignity, memory and survival--Sunday Times

Mrs Dalloway captures both the pulse of the city and the inner rhythms of a woman's life, turning everyday details into profound insight--London Standard

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.