Mrs. Dalloway
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.