Mrs. Dalloway

One of her greatest achievements a book whose afterlife continues to inspire new generations of writers and readers. -- <i>The Guardian</i> <p/> 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. <br> 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 <i>To the Lighthouse</i> and<i> Orlando.</i>