Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway cover
Good Books rating 4.38

Technical:
  • ID: 42
  • Added: 2025-08-15
  • Updated: 2025-09-03
  • ISBN: 9780199536009
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
  • Published: 2008-04-17
  • Reviews: 2

Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches it glittering climax.

Reviews


Pull quotes
  • Woolf's “dark and disquieting” novel is “profound in scope and depth.”
  • Swooningly gorgeous he says of Woolf's prose.
  • Mrs. Dalloway explores complex psychological and social themes.


Pull quotes
  • Mrs. Dalloway is a remarkably expansive and an irreducibly strange book.
  • Nothing you might read in a plot summary prepares you for the novel.
  • It offers a deep and immersive experience into the characters’ lives.