One of One of Will Self's favourite books.
On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax.
"Mrs. Dalloway is a novel that thinks with extraordinary precision and virtuosity about what modern novelists mean when they talk about character: how characters are born; how they age and grow; . . . how they reach for one another in moments of terror and joy, and, finding nothing solid to hold onto, shrink back, unfurling the dazzling intricacies of their thoughts like the petals of the flowers Clarissa Dalloway sees at the florist's shop, each burning in solitude, 'softly, purely in the misty beds.' The intimacy we are offered with her characters comes at the expense of the intimacy they cannot offer each other." -MERVE EMRE, from the Introduction
| Primary Genre | Classic fiction: general and literary |
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"Mrs. Dalloway is a novel that thinks with extraordinary precision and virtuosity about what modern novelists mean when they talk about character: how characters are born; how they age and grow; . . . how they reach for one another in moments of terror and joy, and, finding nothing solid to hold onto, shrink back, unfurling the dazzling intricacies of their thoughts like the petals of the flowers Clarissa Dalloway sees at the florist's shop, each burning in solitude, 'softly, purely in the misty beds.' The intimacy we are offered with her characters comes at the expense of the intimacy they cannot offer each other." -MERVE EMRE, from the Introduction
Mrs. Dalloway features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Interior life, General Fiction, Fiction, Fiction: narrative themes
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Mrs. Dalloway was written by Virginia Woolf and published by W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Mrs. Dalloway has 256 pages
Yes it is part of The Norton Library series
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