Mrs Dalloway - Oxford World's Classics

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'Fear no more the heat of the sun.'

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is
young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death.

The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780199536009
Publisher: OUP OXFORD
Imprint: Oxford University Press
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Edition: Part of the Five Foot Bookshelf
DEWEY: 823.912
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 185
Weight: 184g
Height: 195mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 12mm