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Mrs Dalloway

By Virginia Woolf, Elaine Showalter (Contributor)

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| eBook | 9780141904108

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On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Continue

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This book successfully demonstrates what stream of consciousness is. Reading the book was like going on a tour in London a century ago. Since then, I've been more aware of how my mind works.

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Mayng504 said on Oct 14, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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It was to explain the feeling they had of dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know each other? You met evey day; then not for six months, or years. It was unsatisfactory, they agreed, how little one knew people.
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It was to explain the feeling they had of dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know each other? You met evey day; then not for six months, or years. It was unsatisfactory, they agreed, how little one knew people.
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What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement?
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was.

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IHaveADream said on May 7, 2010 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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"And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought Clarissa, watching him open the door [...]".

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Guy Montag said on Apr 10, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

like a painting, or a music -

Virginia at her very best

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margherita said on Apr 17, 2012 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

"Mrs. Dalloway says she would buy the flowers herself".
Virginia al suo meglio.

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Ciuffoleo said on May 13, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

a great book that deserves a 10-stars rating, although it is not always easy to read for a non-native english speaker.
the style is sublime, and the characters are described so beautifully nuanced, i guess, as only women can do.
A perfect book to end 2010!

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Piet said on Dec 31, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback