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REVIEWS: Mrs. Dalloway
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NY Times
GoodReads
LitLovers
Independent
ThoughtCo
The Literary Omnivore Review
Book Companion
Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa
Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in
preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end,
by the suicide of a young man she has never met. In giving an
apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and
significance–infusing it with the elemental conflict between
death and life–Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her
distinctive style as a novelist. Originally published in 1925,
Mrs. Dalloway is Woolf’s first complete rendering of what she
described as the “luminous envelope” of consciousness: a
dazzling display of the mind’s inside as it plays over the
brilliant surface and darker depths of reality.
Characters: 53. Amazon rating: 4 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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