Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Virginia Woolfs masterpiece now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-SmithOne of the most moving revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway elegant and vivacious is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smiths day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolfs masterly novel in which she perfected the interior monologue brings past present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923. Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Showalter Review One of the few genuine innovations in the history of the novel-New YorkerOne of her greatest achievements a book whose afterlife continues to inspire new generations of writers and readers-Guardian About the Author Virginia Woolf born in 1882 was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels includeThe Voyage OutNight and Day andJacobs Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces includingMrs DallowayTo the LighthouseOrlando and the experimentalThe Waves. Her later novels includeThe Years andBetween the Acts and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism journalism and biography including the passionate feminist essayA Room of Ones Own. Suffering from depression she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.