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Mrs. Dalloway /

""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and...

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Main Authors: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. (Author)
Group Author: Offill, Jenny, 1968- (writer of foreword.); Showalter, Elaine (Editor); McNichol, Stella
Published: Penguin Books,
Publisher Address: [New York] :
Publication Dates: 2021.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Penguin Classics deluxe edition.
Subjects:
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction.
Middle-aged women > Fiction.
Married women > Fiction.
Suicide victims > Fiction.
Triangle (Relations humaines) > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Femmes d'âge moyen > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Femmes mariées > Romans, nouvelles, etc
Suicidés > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Married women.
Middle-aged women.
Suicide victims.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Summary: ""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. In this engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, in which she perfects the interior monologue and recapitulates the life cycle in the hours of the day, from first light to the dark of night, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, impression by impression, minute by minute, the feel of life itself. This edition is collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author's intentions, and includes a catalog of emendations, a stirringly personal foreword by bestselling novelist Jenny Offill, an illuminating introduction and endnotes by the distinguished feminist critic Elaine Showalter, and a map of Mrs. Dalloway's London"--
Item Description: "First published in Great Britain by The Hogarth Press 1925. Annotated edition published in Penguin Books (UK) 1992. This edition with a foreword by Jenny Offill published in Penguin Books (USA) 2021"--title page verso.
Carrier Form: lvii, 179 pages : map ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780143136132
0143136135
9780143136354
0143136356
Index Number: PR6045
CLC: I561.45
Call Number: I561.45/W913-48

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