Mrs. Dalloway and Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street

by Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf’s best-known novels. Created from two short stories, Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street and the unfinished The Prime Minister, the novel’s story is of Clarissa’s preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time, and in and out of the characters’ minds, to construct a complete image of Clarissa’s life and of the inter-war social structure.

159 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 24, 2015

About the author

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Reviews

[Kai La · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short, erratic, but helps pass the time.

[Jaynyah Bland · Rating 4 out of 5]

The writing was beautiful with complicated and varied sentence structures, amazing descriptions, and carefully chosen words filled this book. But it didn't have any chapters nor commas and periods.

[Nakia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This story took a lot to read. There were a lot of characters named in the story. It was a story I had to read for my Lit English course for my master's degree track. Would I read it again? Maybe...

[Piedtenu Enzo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just read "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" 1923 cause i didn't find it alone; so i took this random edition.