Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf (Author)
Mrs. Dalloway, a novel by Virginia Woolf, examines one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class Londoner married to a member of Parliament. The narrative begins and ends with Clarissa as it details a day in her life. Clarissa is a seemingly disillusioned socialite whose mood fluctuates: at some moments she seems delighted, at others she seems depressed. The novel addresses the nature of time in personal experience through multiple interwoven stories, particularly that of Clarissa as she prepares for and hosts a party and that of the mentally damaged war veteran Septimus Warren Smith. Mrs. Dalloway is essentially plotless; what action there is takes place mainly in the characters' consciousness. The novel critiques the conservatism and traditionalism of the upper classes at the time, while also portraying the tragedy of the "lost generation" following World War I
Print Book, English, 1925
Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925