Mrs. Dalloway
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · March 23, 2021
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- Who it’s for
- A dinner-party day becomes a study in memory, connection, and the mind’s wandering paths.
- Genres
- 20th-Century English Fiction, Feminist Fiction, The Classics
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, March 23, 2021
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Mrs. Dalloway is Virginia Woolf’s best known novel. This landmark novel is a masterpiece. While the book seems to take place in a single day in the life of the eponymous Mrs. Dalloway, it is much more. Mrs. Dalloway is preparing for a dinner party to be held that evening. As she goes about her day, her mind wanders to the people who will be attending her party and her relationship with them.
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Her husband, Richard Dalloway; Peter Walsh, a man she might have married instead; Sally Seton, a woman with whom she shared a forbidden kiss; Septimus Warren Smith, a man slowly sinking into madness. The narrative focus shifts back and forth from Mrs. Dalloway to the characters who will be attending her dinner party in a groundbreaking stream of consciousness. The dinner party, like the novel, is a success.
Lives in Motion
A dinner-party day becomes a study in memory, connection, and the mind’s wandering paths.
Come here for
- A single day opened into a web of relationships and remembered choices
- Shifting perspectives rendered in stream of consciousness
Expect
- A narrative that moves between Mrs. Dalloway and her guests
- Interior lives unfolding alongside the day’s social rituals
Where it sits
| 20th-Century English Fiction | 44% |
|---|---|
| The Classics | 32% |
| Feminist Fiction | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- World War I Historical Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Women's Fiction
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- Family Life
- Urban Fiction
- Authors
- Virginia Woolf
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- March 23, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- The Classics