Mrs Dalloway
$27.01
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
12 June 2012
Summary
New edition of the Penguin Essential about the events of one June day in 1923… “She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”
On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a party she is giving that evening. As she walks through London, buying flowers, observing life, her thoughts are …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241956793 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 024195679X |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 12 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 119g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 111mm x 180mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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Critics Review
One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century
One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century – Michael Cunningham
Woolf is Modern. She feels close to us. – Jeanette Winterson
Virginia Woolf
Born in 1882, Virginia Woolf was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen. She suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother in 1895 and her step-sister Stella in 1897, leading to lifelong breakdowns.
With her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, she became involved with writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, later known as the Bloomsbury Group. There, she met Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912. Together, they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917.
Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915. Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928) written for Vita Sackville-West, the poetic The Waves (1931), and Between the Acts (1941).
Woolf lived an energetic life, reviewing and writing, and dividing her time between London and the Sussex Downs. In 1941, fearing a recurrence of mental illness, she drowned herself.
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