Mrs. Dalloway

    • Author: Virginia Woolf
    • Genre: Novel
    • Publication Date: May 14, 1925
    • Publisher: Hogarth Press
    • Pages: 194
    • ISBN 0-15-662870-8
    • Narrative Structure: Stream of consciousness with flashbacks
    • Adaptations: Michael Cunningham's The Hours is a loose adaptation of the novel.
    • Famous First Line: "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."
  • Mrs. Dalloway is a novel that chronicles a day in the life of the book's proagonist, Clarissa Dalloway, as she prepares to host a party in post-World War I London. The novel is commonly thought to be a response to Ulysses by James Joyce.
  • Plot Synopsis

    As Clarissa Dalloway readies her house for a party that evening, she is flooded with memories and, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa re-examines the choices she has made and worries about what the future may hold.
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