WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM AND CAROL ANN DUFFYIn this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life,Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of 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.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099470458Number of pages: 208Weight: 149 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 13 mm
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Mrs Dalloway contains some of the most beautiful,complex,incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English,and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving,revolutionary artworks of the twentieth centuryA beautiful piece of writingI think To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway are sheer magicVirginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism,the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To 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".A beautiful ode to dignity,memory and survival
Virginia Woolf
A titan of twentieth-century literature,a feminist icon and a figurehead of the modernist movement in Britain,Virginia Woolf remains one of the most daringly experimental writers in print. Her works include Mrs Dalloway,To the Lighthouse and Orlando and the pioneering non-fiction collection A Room of One's Own.
Visit the Virginia Woolf author pageCarol Ann Duffy
A playwright and writer,Carol Ann Duffy is best known as one of Britain's most popular and critically acclaimed poets and currently holds the post of Poet Laureate. Her best-known works include: Feminine Gospels,The World's Wife,Rapture, The Bees and Sincerity and,as editor,101 Poems for Children,Armistice and The Map and the Clock.
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