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OverviewVirginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness masterpiece follows Clarissa Dalloway through the course of a day as she prepares to host a party in the evening. The beautiful June day brings back memories from her happy schoolgirl years. She wonders about her choice of husband - was she wrong to have married the reliable Richard Dalloway, refusing the exciting Peter Walsh? What was the place of her schoolgirl love? Mrs. Dalloway travels back and forth in time, densely weaving the texture of an intelligent, upper-class woman's life lived in post-WWII England. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Virginia WoolfPublisher: Melville House Publishing Imprint: Melville House Publishing Weight: 0.368kg ISBN: 9781935554370ISBN 10: 1935554379 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 08 March 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Postponed Indefinitley Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsReviewsVirginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of Modernism in England, and must be included with Joyce and Proust in the realizaztion of experimental acheivements that has completely broken with tradition. -- The New York Times Author InformationVirginia Woolf is hailed as one of the great novelists of the twentieth century, widely regarded as an important figure in early Modernism. She experimented with stream-of-consciousness to illuminate her characters' interior lives, and was an acclaimed innovator in both the language and form of such works as To The Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando and Jacob's Room. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |