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First published in May 1925, ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ is a masterpiece of modern literature, a personal and probing account of a single day in the life of a London society woman, written by Virginia Woolf, who is recognized as one of the most innovative writers of the 20th century. Perhaps best known as the author of Mrs. Dalloway, she was also a prolific writer of essays, diaries, letters, and biographies. Both in style and subject matter, Woolf’s work captures the fast-changing world in which she was working.
When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa revaluates the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old. One of Virginia Woolf’s most accomplished novels, it is widely regarded as one of the most revolutionary works of the 20th century in its style and the themes that it tackles.

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With its annotated contemporary reviews, newspaper articles, and historical and medical documents, Broadview's Mrs Dalloway is an ideal student text." - Maggie Humm, University of East London, editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts "Jo-Ann Wallace's superb edition of Mrs. Dalloway offers students, scholars, and common readers a richly contextualized framework for Woolf's fourth novel. Brief, clear, and unobtrusive annotations cover geographical, historical, economic, social, and literary allusions. A thorough yet readable introduction covers Woolf's biography and reputation, her novel's modernist and experimental features, and its status as a war novel. Excellent appendices capture a wide range of contemporary reactions, locate the novel within Woolf's fictional and nonfictional canon, and give readers entry into the lived experience of the time through political, medical, educational, and social documents. The select bibliography and brief chronology are also helpful." - Beth Rigel Daugherty, Otterbein University --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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This edition of Mrs Dalloway includes substantial explanatory notes compiling past scholarship while identifying new allusions, and a list of textual variants among all editions in Woolf's lifetime. It also features a composition history, documenting how Woolf's reading, friendships, and culture contributed to the book, and Woolf's seldom-reprinted 1928 introduction. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

Jo-Ann Wallace is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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`'As an edition for enriching one's personal reading or for use in discussion with students, I cannot think of a better one. And at £4.99 a copy, I wholeheartedly recommend it!'' Virginia Woolf Bulletin, No. 6, january 2001 --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Virginia Woolf was born in 1882, the youngest daughter of the Victorian writer Sir Leslie Stephen. She was educated at home with her sister, Vanessa, in a literary environment. The death of Woolf's mother in 1895 and her father in 1904 led to the first of the serious nervous breakdowns that would come to feature heavily in her life. Shortly afterwards she moved with her sister and two of her brothers to 46 Gordon Square, which was to be the first meeting place of the circle of writers and artists known as the Bloomsbury Group. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, with whom she would later establish the Hogarth Press, and also published her first novel, The Voyage Out. It would be followed by eight others, including Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), which together establish her position as one of the most important modernists of the twentieth century. Woolf committed suicide in 1941. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Virginia Woolf’s stream of consciousness modernist masterpiece. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Virginia Woolf was born in 1882, the youngest daughter of the Victorian writer Sir Leslie Stephen. She was educated at home with her sister, Vanessa, in a literary environment. The death of Woolf's mother in 1895 and her father in 1904 led to the first of the serious nervous breakdowns that would come to feature heavily in her life. Shortly afterwards she moved with her sister and two of her brothers to 46 Gordon Square, which was to be the first meeting place of the circle of writers and artists known as the Bloomsbury Group. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, with whom she would later establish the Hogarth Press, and also published her first novel, The Voyage Out. It would be followed by eight others, including Mrs Dalloway(1925) and To the Lighthouse(1927), which together establish her position as one of the most important modernists of the twentieth century. Woolf committed suicide in 1941. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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On a beautiful June morning, Clarissa Dalloway, a fashionable London hostess, prepares for a party she is to give that coming evening. Although she is now in her early fifties and happily married, her thoughts throughout the day constantly return to a summer long ago in her youth, when she had refused to marry the bright and brilliant Peter Walsh. It was an anguished decision, one she had 'borne about her for years like an arrow sticking in her heart'. She reflects upon it now not only because her old suitor is due to return to London but also because her daughter, Elizabeth, is swiftly approaching eighteen, on the verge of womanhood.

Witnessing the female cycle of sexual flowering, love and marriage about to repeat itself in the next generation, Clarissa realises that she must re-assess the events of her youth before she can embark on the next stage of her life.

'Mrs Dalloway' marked an important stage in Virginia Woolf's development as a writer. With this book, she finally broke away from the traditional form of the English novel, establishing herself as a writer of genius.

“There is no writer who can give the illusion of reality with more certainty… a perfection of style which is at once solid and ethereal.”
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On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway – fashionable, worldly, wealthy, an accomplished hostess – sets off to buy flowers for the party she will give that evening. She is preoccupied with thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her interior monologue emerge the people who have touched her life. On the same day, Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked survivor of the Great War, commits suicide, and casual mention of his death at the party provokes in Clarissa thoughts of her own isolation and loneliness.

Bold and experimental, Mrs Dalloway is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a modernist classic.

With an afterword by Anna South.

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Virginia Woolf’s stream of consciousness modernist masterpiece. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09WJ5NT6Q
Publisher ‏ : ‎ DIGITAL FIRE; 1st edition (25 March 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1550 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 198 pages

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VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels.
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Ulrich Baer's interest is how literature and photography are distinct way of knowing about and existing in the world. He is a writer, translator and podcaster who has published widely on literature, photography, culture, history, and other subjects, including free speech, and memorial culture. He teaches literature, photography, and globalization as University Professor at New York University where he also directs the Center for the Humanities. He holds a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Yale University, and has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, Humboldt, and DAAD Fellowships.
His single author books include: Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma; Remnants of Song: Poetry and the Experiences of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan; The Rilke Alphabet; What Snowflakes Get Right: Speech, Equality and Truth in the University.
He is editor and/or translator of: The Dark Interval: Rilke's Letters of Loss, Grief and Transformation; 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11; Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters on Life; Wilde on Love; Shakespeare on Love; Rilke on Love; Dickinson on Love; Nietzsche on Love; The Claims of Reading: A Shoshana Felman Reader (with Emily Sun and Eyal Peretz); Hannah Arendt zwischen den Disziplinen (edited with Amir Eshel), and new editions of Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, E.A. Poe, Heart of Darkness, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man; The Prophet (with Glenn Wallis); The Picture of Dorian Gray; Beyond Good and Evil; The Great Gatsby; Mrs. Dalloway; Jane Eyre; The Scarlet Letter (with Carol Gilligan) and other books.
He's edited Rilke's prose writings for Rilke's original German publisher, Insel Verlag, and published other books in German, and a novel, We Are But A Moment, and a collection of love stories set in Shanghai, Beggar’s Chicken: Stories from Shanghai. Find out more at www.ulrichbaer.com.
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Eriko Holmes

Not my normally preferred writing style

Reviewed in Australia on 18 September 2021

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Stream of consciousness styles of writing normally turn me off finishing a book, but to Woolf's credit, Mrs Dalloway is something magical. I had to let go of my need to understand the point of an anecdote, and when I did I started to enjoy the novel. I laughed audibly and unexpectedly at some points, and felt some uncomfortable deep dread in others. My recommendation to new readers of Woolf would be not to linger on pages, but to push through and feel the chaotic rhythm. Mrs Dalloway is a funny, relatable, upsetting, chaotic slice of life that reflects on decisions made throughout life that mold who we are today.

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Belinda

Understand what you're getting into...

Reviewed in Australia on 31 October 2014

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I'm somewhat biased as I had a bad experience with this book when I was younger, but this is definitely not my favourite. It's not bad, in fact the writing is good. I'm just not a huge fan of stream of conciousness writing or Virginia Woolf. This is not the sort of book to read while distracted- it demands your full attention. If you give it that, you will be rewarded.

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JM

Beware - this not the novel 'Mrs Dalloway'

Reviewed in Australia on 22 September 2020

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Please be warned. If you are hoping to buy a copy of the novel 'Mrs Dalloway', this is not it. It is discussion about the novel but there is no actual text of the novel in this book. I would have given it zero stars if that were possible.

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Ant

Good for insomnia

Reviewed in Australia on 25 November 2017

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I understand that this is a masterful work and a fantastic example of modernist literature but it is definitely not a fun read.

Reviewed in Australia on 12 April 2018

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Beautiful honest sweet book, worth reading twice to understand it fully! Wonderfully true ponder on ones life at 50, and the place of people, especially women and the impoverished, in "modern" society, through the gathering of memories in an effort to understand ones place in the world.

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Anthony Bendall

Revisiting an old friend

Reviewed in Australia on 5 October 2014

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I re-visited thus extraordinary novel for a School of Life book club, and again fell in love with its crisp prose, satirical humour, forthright treatment of mental illness and suicide and startling contemporaneity. It reads as though it were written last month, rather than 90 years ago. Highly, highly recommended.

Reviewed in Australia on 6 August 2014

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Virginia Woolf was an unusual person and her writing was equally unusual.

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Jennifer Curtis

One Star

Reviewed in Australia on 3 August 2014

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very slow,dated and dull

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Mrs Tina Todd

Not The Original!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 December 2019

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I have read this book many times and noticed that the text is not the original but can find nothing to say that is the case. The first line immediately alerted me 'Mrs Dalloway said she might buy the plants herself' should read 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' Plants/flowers, might/would - why you may say make a fuss? Because the book was written by Virginia Woolf who wrote in a very particular, precise and poetic way. She should not be re-written. Certainly not without indication that modifications have been made.

I have been unable to post my comment without giving the book a rating so I have given it a nominal 1 star which is an over-rating in my opinion.

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Faulty digitisation ?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2019

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Very disappointing. Found this version almost impossible to read, it just didn't make sense, seemed like random words had just been flung on the page. I eventually realised that this must be something to do with the digitisation (?). Had it been automised , or done by a computer or non- English speaker from a verbal recording instead of a written text?
I have since bought the Penguin classic version from Kindle and this is fine. I am enjoying the read.

Doesn't warrant a star rating but had to give a minimum of 0ne to submiy this review.
Do not buy this version.

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Kellie Bird

Not for me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 September 2018

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I didn't finish this read. I have little to say about it. I found it fairly one dimensional, which is ironic, considering this is a novel studied by millions across the globe. The characters are suitably postmodern, giving little to know and less to like. The style of writing is wonderfully advanced given its time, however, Mrs. Dalloway herself is so unbelievably dull that I just can't bring myself to care about anything that she has to say. As I understand, the story improves in the latter half. Unfortunately, I have a short attention span for prose of this kind and if it doesn't grab my attention in the initial chapters it swiftly ends up on the 'half read' pile.

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Sionnach Rua

Don’t buy this edition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 July 2020

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All the text in this book is garbled. Luckily I knew the book already so could see that it has been transcribed so poorly that it makes no sense. It should be removed from sale.

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M J Ricks

The Text is mangled

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 October 2020

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This version is unreadable. No idea why the text is completely different from the original. It reads as though it were translated into Chinese and then back from Chinese into English.

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