On a single June day in post-war London, Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party while Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked veteran she will never meet, moves toward a breaking point. Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, published in 1925, is a novel that unfolds entirely in the minds of its characters — a day of ordinary life rendered extraordinary through the stream-of-consciousness technique that Woolf made her own.Touted by Penguin as Woolf's finest novel, Mrs Dalloway is a work about time, memory, and the gap between how we present ourselves and what we actually feel. The parallel lives of Clarissa and Septimus — one at the centre of society, one destroyed by it — form one of modernist fiction's most powerful structural achievements. To read it is to experience how much can be contained in a single afternoon.This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents Woolf's original, unabridged text — an essential volume for any serious literary library.
