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  • Published: 13 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241436271
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $24.00

Mrs Dalloway




A reissue of the PMC edition of Woolf's masterpiece, now with a new jacket

'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham

Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.

  • Published: 13 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241436271
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $24.00

About the author

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

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Praise for Mrs Dalloway

One of the few genuine innovations in the history of the novel

New Yorker

One of her greatest achievements, a book whose afterlife continues to inspire new generations of writers and readers

Guardian