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Mrs. Dalloway
Contributor(s): Woolf, Virginia (Author)
ISBN: 0156628708     ISBN-13: 9780156628709
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
OUR PRICE:   $8.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 1990
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Annotation: Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more. It is the feelings that loom behind those daily events--the social alliances, the shopkeeper's exchange, the fact of death--that give Mrs. Dalloway texture and richness.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 89078483
Lexile Measure: 950
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.40 lbs) 224 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 74683
Reading Level: 7.2   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 11.0
 
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Publisher Description:

"Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are."

In this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house for friends and neighbors, she is flooded with remembrances of the past--the passionate loves of her carefree youth, her practical choice of husband, and the approach and retreat of war. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.

From the introspective Clarissa, to the lover who never fully recovered from her rejection, to a war-ravaged stranger in the park, the characters and scope of Mrs. Dalloway reshape our sense of ordinary life making it one of the most "moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century" (Michael Cunningham).


Contributor Bio(s): Woolf, Virginia: - VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels.

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