Mrs Dalloway

'Fear no more the heat of the sun.' Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.

ISBN 0199536007   Weight (grammes) 181 ISBN13 9780199536009 (What's this?)   Published in Oxford Publisher Oxford University Press   Series title Oxford World's Classics Imprint Oxford University Press   Previous ISBN 9780192839701 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 196 Publication date 17 Apr 2008   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 823.912   Spine width (mm) 11 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General Pages 256

a world unknown to me till then opened when i first read it in a cheap paperback edition. I was very young at that time-was i 18 or 20?- inexperienced in life but the hidden power of the writers words revealed to me the many faces of human tragedy. That book also helped me discover not only the Woolf writer but also the whole Bloomsbury group and led me to another adventure of discoveries. - Kostas Marinos



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