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Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway

Summary

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.

'Sheer magic' Eileen Atkins, Daily Mail

'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

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

About the author

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.
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