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Mrs Dalloway

By Virginia Woolf , Trudi Tate (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2025
ISBN
0192859854, 9780192859853
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2018564 bytes)
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Pages
224\225
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2025-03-08 20:02:34

Description

Mrs Dalloway follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in London, in June 1923, as she prepares for a party. Clarissa's thoughts and actions are interwoven with the trauma and bereavement of Septimus Smith, a poor young man suffering from shell-shock, in a contrasting narrative that provides poignant insights into the political, historical, and social issues of Woolf's day. The novel brings memories and the present together, written and set in the uneasy years immediately after the First World War. This new edition, annotated and introduced by Trudi Tate, broadens and deepens key aspects of the historical context, including a fresh examination of Woolf's representations of women in the wake of the first women in Britain winning the right to vote, the context of post-war politics, and the innovative aspects of the author's writing style.

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