Mrs. Dalloway: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
Mrs. Dalloway: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.
Mrs. Dalloway is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Woolf, Virginia (1882–1941).
Catalogue synopsis
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"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf is a novel published in 1925. It follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in post-World War I London, as she prepares to host an evening party. Through stream of consciousness narration, the story weaves between present moments and memories, exploring Clarissa's past relationships and choices. A parallel narrative follows Septimus Warren Smith, a war veteran struggling with trauma, whose fate will unexpectedly touch Clarissa's world by day's end.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Mrs. Dalloway
- Author credits: Woolf, Virginia (1882–1941)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Domestic fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- Married women -- Fiction
- Middle-aged women -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Suicide victims -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Gutenberg collections
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Classics of Literature
- Category: Novels
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