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Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
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Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R262
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Mrs. Dalloway (1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Adapted from two
short stories, "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" and "The Prime
Minister," Mrs. Dalloway is a moving portrait of a day in the life
of one woman, her thoughts and perceptions, and the influence of
war on the human psyche. Recognized as one of Woolf's most
important works, Mrs. Dalloway is often considered one of the
greatest English language novels of the twentieth century. In the
aftermath of the Great War, two Londoners lead vastly different
lives. Each of them, in their own way, has been impacted by
violence-one, Clarissa Dalloway, has had her aristocratic lifestyle
interrupted and struggles to reconcile her idyllic past with a
present reeling from conflict; the other, Septimus Warren Smith, is
a wounded veteran left to fend for himself on the streets of
England's capital. Throughout the day, as Mrs. Dalloway readies
herself and her home for a party in the evening, she muses on her
youth in the countryside and fantasizes about leaving her husband
Richard. Across the city, Septimus lives in a park with his
estranged Italian wife, Lucrezia. Suffering from a mental
breakdown, he is struck with a series of powerful hallucinations
and ultimately taken to a nearby psychiatric hospital. Well
educated and decorated in battle, he has been left behind by the
society he fought to protect, the very society gathering that night
at Mrs. Dalloway's opulent home. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Virginia
Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is a classic work of English literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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