Mrs Dalloway

One of the most moving revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century Michael Cunningham. Clarissa Dalloway elegant and vivacious is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel in which she perfected the interior monologue brings past present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.|Virginia Woolf born in 1882 was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces including Mrs Dalloway To the Lighthouse Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism journalism and biography including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.|'One of the most moving revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway elegant and vivacious is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel in which she perfected the interior monologue brings past present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.|One of the few genuine innovations in the history of the novel|One of her greatest achievements a book whose afterlife continues to inspire new generations of writers and readers