Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf ; edited with an introduction and notes by David Bradshaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, author.

Contributor:

Bradshaw, David, 1955- editor.

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations).

Middle-aged women--Fiction.

Middle-aged women.

Suicide victims--Fiction.

Suicide victims.

Married women--Fiction.

Married women.

First loves--Fiction.

First loves.

Parties--Fiction.

Parties.

Regret--Fiction.

Regret.

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

New edition

Other Title:

Mrs Dalloway

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2000]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xlviii]-li).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-198959-2

0-19-160906-4

1-283-09912-8

9786613099129

0-19-159263-3