MRS. DALLOWAY

One of her greatest achievements a book whose afterlife continues to inspire new generations of writers and readers. &; The Guardian This modernist masterpiece originally published in 1925 chronicles a day in the life of an upper-class Englishwoman. Revolutionary in its psychological realism the third-person narrative switches between Clarissa Dalloway and her fictional counterpart Septimus Smith a shell-shocked World War I veteran. Virginia Woolf's pioneering stream-of-consciousness technique portrays the fragmented yet fluid nature of time and illustrates the commonality of perceptions shared across social barriers. A major literary figure of the twentieth century Virginia Woolf (1882&;1941) wrote such groundbreaking essays as A Room of One's Own in addition to numerous letters journals and short stories. Her other novels include To the Lighthouse and Orlando.