Editions

Mrs Dalloway

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781448139002

  • Length: 208  Pages

  • RRP: £7.99

Mrs Dalloway

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM AND CAROL ANN DUFFY

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of 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.

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781448139002

  • Length: 208  Pages

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • "Mrs Dalloway contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English, and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century"

    Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

  • "A beautiful piece of writing"

    Will Self, Guardian

  • "I think To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway are sheer magic"

    Eileen Atkins, Daily Express

  • "Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse showed how experimental writing could reshape our sense of ordinary life. Taking unremarkable materials - preparations for a genteel party, a day on a bourgeois family holiday - they trace the flow of associations and ideas that we call "consciousness"."

    Guardian

More from this Author

View all View all
View all View all

About the Author

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. After her father's death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of ‘The Bloomsbury Group’. This informal collective of artists and writers exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. Three years later, her first novel The Voyage Out was published, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room (1922). Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography. On 28 March 1941, a few months before the publication of her final novel, Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf committed suicide.

Virginia Woolf

Related articles

/content/dam/prh/articles/archive/hogarth-texture-snippet-dark.jpg

Features

The History of Hogarth Press

13 June 2017
/content/dam/prh/articles/archive/where-to-start-virginia-woolf-reading-guide-960x450.jpg

Recommendations

Where to start with Virginia Woolf

12 October 2016
/content/dam/prh/articles/archive/orlando_woolf_film_promo.jpg

Features

Woolf on film

01 June 2016

We use cookies on this site and by continuing to browse it you agree to us sending you cookies.

For more on our cookies and changing your settings click here.