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From BBC Radio 4:
Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June. Lives interweave on the streets of London as Clarissa Dalloway makes her final preparations for an important party.
Virginia Woolf spent the First World War on the Home front mainly in London. It was an anxious time; she lost several cousins in the conflict, and her brother-in-law Cecil Woolf died at the Front; in 1915 she suffered a mental breakdown.
For Woolf the war had chang ...more
From BBC Radio 4:
Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June. Lives interweave on the streets of London as Clarissa Dalloway makes her final preparations for an important party.
Virginia Woolf spent the First World War on the Home front mainly in London. It was an anxious time; she lost several cousins in the conflict, and her brother-in-law Cecil Woolf died at the Front; in 1915 she suffered a mental breakdown.
For Woolf the war had chang ...more
First read 2011
Re-read 24/12/2012
Re-read 24/12/2012
I understand why this book is a classic, but I still didn't particularly like it. The extreme usage of semicolons, as well as the constant drifting from consciousness to consciousness, made it difficult to follow at times, and even more difficult to care about the story or the characters. But then again, I don't particularly enjoy the stream of consciousness writing style. If I'm going to listen to someone's rambling thoughts, I'd rather listen to my own.
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