Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
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Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
By Virginia Woolf
First published in 1925 and beloved by generations of readers, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is a landmark novel that explores themes of feminism, mental illness, and self-realization. It is an essential read for all lovers of classic literature.
The novel centers around Clarissa Dalloway, a married, high-society woman in post-World War I London who is preparing for an evening party at her home. Acutely aware of her standing among other members of her elite social class but yearning to find her true self, Clarissa embodies the internal and external conflicts of women in the early twentieth century.
As she makes her way about London, Clarissa’s stream of consciousness is constantly interrupted by memories of her past, giving the reader a keen insight into the mind of a woman undergoing an existential crisis.
This edition of the novel draws together all the textual variants to provide a text that represents as closely as possible Woolf’s final intentions.
About the Author
A pioneer of stream of consciousness narrative, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) is considered one of the most important modernist writers of the twentieth century. She became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism, and her works have since garnered much attention and widespread commentary. A large body of literature is dedicated to her life and work, and she has been the subject of plays, novels, and films.
- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Chiltern Publishing (October 26, 2021)
- Dimensions: 5” W x 7.2” H
History
The Hours
World premiere: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, March 2022 (concert version, performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra); Metropolitan Opera House, New York, November 2022 (staged production)
A compelling new opera about three women in different times and places, The Hours is based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Michael Cunningham and the Academy Award–winning film adaptation that followed. Both the book and the film make heavy reference to an earlier novel, Virginia Woolf’s 1925 Mrs. Dalloway, which forms a sort of parallel background narrative, and the opera uses Woolf’s and Cunningham’s magisterial prose as a departure point from which to explore ambiguities and fluidities that cry out for musical expression.
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