Mrs. Dalloway

This book—hailed as Virginia Woolf's best—is a detailed account of a single day in a woman's life. Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is consumed with the last-minute intricacies of party planning when we first meet her but she has much bigger aspirations than becoming the ideal society hostess. She is overcome with memories of bygone eras as she prepares her home. And when faced with the present's reality Clarissa reevaluates the decisions that got her there and hesitantly considers the work of growing older.