Mrs. Dalloway
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$25.56
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2021
Summary
A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf’s engulfing portrait of one day in a woman’s life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill.
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper.
“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” It’s one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf’s beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and viv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143136132 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143136135 |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf, Stella McNichol, Jenny Offill, Elaine Showalter |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 146mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition |
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Critics Review
“A revelation … A remarkably expansive and an irreducibly strange book. Nothing you might read in a plot summary prepares you for the multitudes it contains.” Jenny Offill, from the Foreword
“Woolf’s classic feels even more relevant after a year of lockdown has rendered many of us so frantically introspective… . This new Penguin Classics edition is superb.” ―Ron Charles, The Washington Post Book Club“At a time when our most ordinary acts―shopping, taking a walk―have come to seem momentous, a matter of life or death, Clarissa’s vision of everyday shopping as a high-stakes adventure resonates in a peculiar way. We are all Mrs. Dalloway now.” ―The New Yorker“A masterpiece of midlife crisis.” —The Atlantic“A revelation … A remarkably expansive and an irreducibly strange book. Nothing you might read in a plot summary prepares you for the multitudes it contains.” ―Jenny Offill, from the Foreword“One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century.” ―Michael Cunningham
About The Author
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), one of the great twentieth-century authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915, and between 1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, including Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and the passionate feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929).
Jenny Offill (foreword) is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Weather; the nationally bestselling novel Dept. of Speculation, which was one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2014; and the novel Last Things, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Bard College and in the low residency program at Queens University of Charlotte.
Elaine Showalter (introduction, notes) is Professor of English, Emerita, at Princeton University, and the author of many works of feminist literary criticism.
Stella McNichol (editor) was the author of several critical studies on Virginia Woolf.
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