Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Book description
Heralded as Virginia Woolf’s greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman’s life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old. Published in 1925, 219 pages.
Description from book jacket
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Discussion questions
Mrs. Dalloway discussion questions from readinggroupguide.com
Additional information
Virginia Woolf, Audio Interview, 1937, from BBC
Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ from the British Library’s Online Gallery, English Literature.
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