Mrs. Dalloway (Heathen Edition)

Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English author and essayist and considered one of the most important modernist literary figures of the 20th century. She was a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device which she wielded masterfully in perhaps her masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway where during a single day in June 1923 Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party she will host that evening while nearby Septimus Smith a shell-shocked war veteran abruptly loses touch with this reality. Employing a nonlinear narrative to weave a vivid portrait Woolf travels in and out of characters minds and forward and back in time to intertwine the social structure of Clarissas post-First World War London with the lives of all in her orbit.