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Mrs. Dalloway: One Day in London, Two Lives Divided by War
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Publisher: Curated Collection Publishing
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. On a bright June morning in postwar London, she steps into the city to buy flowers herself, and the day opens around her: bells marking the hours, traffic and voices in the streets, familiar faces, sudden memories, and questions about the life she chose. Beneath Clarissa's practiced social ease lie thoughts of youth, love, aging, marriage, and the distances that can remain between even the people who know one another best.
Elsewhere in London, Septimus Warren Smith walks with his wife, Lucrezia. A veteran of the First World War, Septimus is haunted by the death of his friend Evans and overwhelmed by visions, guilt, and emotional numbness. The doctors who attend him mistake authority for understanding, leaving Rezia isolated beside a husband she loves but cannot reach. Although Clarissa and Septimus never meet, Woolf binds their stories through place, time, sound, and a shared resistance to forces that threaten the private self.
The novel unfolds across a single day, yet whole lives rise within its hours. A scent, a street, a sound from Big Ben, or an unexpected visitor can release decades of memory. Perspectives pass from one mind to another, revealing a city crowded with separate consciousnesses that touch briefly without ever becoming fully known. Clarissa's party gathers politicians, old friends, disappointed lovers, and family beneath one roof, turning a social occasion into a delicate test of connection.
First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway is one of the defining novels of literary modernism. Woolf's fluid movement through thought and memory captures both the radiant surface of ordinary life and the grief concealed beneath it. At once a portrait of English society and an intimate meditation on trauma, mortality, love, and survival, the novel asks what it means to preserve a private identity while remaining open to other lives. Its answer finds profound meaning in moments of perception, recognition, and human presence.
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