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Mrs Dalloway (New ed.)

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Fear no more the heat of the sun.' Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923.

Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek.

There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus.

She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith isyoung, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race.

Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death.

The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.

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Oxford University Press
0191592633 / 9780191592638
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
823.912
04/05/2000
England
English
166 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Quiz No: 221685, Points 11.00, Book Level 7.20,
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