Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Classics Woolf Series): Virginia Woolf

In this vivid portrait of one day in a womans life Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life. Review A beautiful piece of writing -- Will Self ―GuardianI thinkTo The Lighthouse andMrs Dalloway are sheer magic -- Eileen Atkins ―Daily ExpressVirginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism the 1920s. Novels such asMrs Dalloway andTo the Lighthouse showed how experimental writing could reshape our sense of ordinary life. Taking unremarkable materials - preparations for a genteel party a day on a bourgeois family holiday - they trace the flow of associations and ideas that we call consciousness. ―Guardian About the Author Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. After her fathers death in 1904 Virginia and her sister the painter Vanessa Bell moved to Bloomsbury and became the center of ‘The Bloomsbury Group’. This informal collective of artists and writers exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf a writer and social reformer. Three years later her first novelthe Voyage Out was published followed byNight and Day (1919) andJacobs Room (1922). Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces fromMrs. Dalloway (1925) tothe Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism and biography. On 28 March 1941 a few months before the publication of her final novelBetween the Acts Virginia Woolf committed suicide.