Mrs. Dalloway

<p><I>Mrs. Dalloway</I> (1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Adapted from two short stories Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street and The Prime Minister <I>Mrs. Dalloway</I> is a moving portrait of a day in the life of one woman her thoughts and perceptions and the influence of war on the human psyche. Recognized as one of Woolf's most important works <I>Mrs. Dalloway</I> is often considered one of the greatest English language novels of the twentieth century. In the aftermath of the Great War two Londoners lead vastly different lives. Each of them in their own way has been impacted by violence-one Clarissa Dalloway has had her aristocratic lifestyle interrupted and struggles to reconcile her idyllic past with a present reeling from conflict; the other Septimus Warren Smith is a wounded veteran left to fend for himself on the streets of England's capital. Throughout the day as Mrs. Dalloway readies herself and her home for a party in the evening she muses on her youth in the countryside and fantasizes about leaving her husband Richard. Across the city Septimus lives in a park with his estranged Italian wife Lucrezia. Suffering from a mental breakdown he is struck with a series of powerful hallucinations and ultimately taken to a nearby psychiatric hospital. Well educated and decorated in battle he has been left behind by the society he fought to protect the very society gathering that night at Mrs. Dalloway's opulent home.<I>Mrs. Dalloway</I> is a classic work of English literature reimagined for modern readers.</p> <p>Since our inception in 2020 Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. <p>With thousands of titles in our collection we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.</p>