Mrs. Dalloway (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Stream-of-Consciousness Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Memory, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Suicide, Self, 1920’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Mental illness, England or English people, Lesbianism or lesbians, Upper classes, London, World War I, Personality, Consciousness, Middle age, Parties, Psychiatry or psychiatrists, Nostalgia
- Locales: London, England
This novel follows Clarissa Dalloway on a June day in London as she takes care of last-minute arrangements for a party at her home that evening. An apparently happy, superficial society hostess, Clarissa is revealed through her thoughts as extremely sensitive to experience, aware not only of the beauties but of the horrors and dangers of daily life. Her day consists of small happenings to which the novel attributes major significance. She receives a surprise visit from her former suitor and reflects on her reasons for choosing her husband. When her husband accepts a luncheon invitation...
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