This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more. For it is the feeling behind these daily events that gives Mrs. Dalloway its texture and richness and makes it so memorable. Foreword by Maureen Howard.

"Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. If the novel before Mrs. Dalloway aspired to immensities of scope and scale, to heroic journeys across vast landscapes, with Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf insisted that it could also locate the enormous within the everyday; that a life of errands and party-giving was every bit as viable a subject as any life lived anywhere; and that should any human act in any novel seem unimportant, it has merely been inadequately observed. The novel as an art form has not been the same since.

"Mrs. Dalloway also 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

RELEASE NOTES:

sourced for a winner in my 3rd anniversary surprise (only because i don't want my personal copy to go wandering too far from home)

happy reading nikkilovesbooks
;-)

Another classic to treasure!! I am sooo lucky - thank you LadyIndigo. (Ohh, yes, and I loved The Hours too)

As I am heading down to WA to live, I've chosen some books to leave my shelf and continue down the East Coast, all the way to Vic in a BookBag. Off they go...have fun little books :)
Beautiful story. Thanks so much for sharing....

I have wanted to read Mrs Dalloway since I watched the Hours, so I was pleased to receive this! Thanks so much, nikkilovesbooks, for sending this along with so many others in a huge bookbag.

This has been on my bookshelf for sometime and I still unfortunately haven’t read it! However I noticed it was a wishlist book for a bookring owner, so it is accompanying the bookring home. Hope you enjoy it!

Thanks so much for sharing this wishlist book!

Added to Gen Lit VBB

Thank you for sharing this 1001 book. I am looking forward to reading this book.

This novel is beautifully written. That being said, I didn't find the book compelling. This is number 2 of 10 1001 books I am going to read this year.

Enjoy! KTM book