Direct and vivid in her account of Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party?? Virginia Woolf explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life.
In Mrs. Dalloway?? the novel on which the movie The Hours was based?? Virginia Woolf details Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess?? exploring the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life. The novel "ains some of the most beautiful?? complex?? incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English?? and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving?? revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century"chael Cunningham).Amazon.com ReviewAs Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning?? a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops?? leaving " one letter?? picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path?? Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh?? whom she spurned years ago?? to her daughter Elizabeth?? the girl's angry teacher?? Doris Kilman?? and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith?? who is sinking into madness.
As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening?? a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited?? without her?? to lunch with Lady Bruton (who?? Clarissa notes anxiously?? gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile?? Peter Walsh appears?? recently from India?? to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past?? the choices she made then?? and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.
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