Mrs. Dalloway (AmazonClassics Edition)

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden

A single day becomes the entirety of a life in Virginia Woolf’s enduring exploration of a woman’s soul and purpose. As society hostess Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party, she also reflects hour by hour on her past, her secret burdens, her safe marriage, and other compromises that have brought her to this moment in time. But elsewhere in London, a stranger, a damaged World War I veteran, makes irreversible choices of his own - choices that will intrude on Mrs. Dalloway’s reverie before the night is over.

Employing an immersive interior monologue, Woolf’s landmark novel of intersecting lives is heralded as one of the twentieth century’s most innovative works.

Revised edition: Previously published as Mrs. Dalloway, this edition of Mrs. Dalloway (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

An extraordinary glimpse inside processes that effect mental health

Virginia Woolf is a master of the mind. She manages to tell a story of the complexities and interconnected elements of people’s lives within the span of one day. From lost love, marriage, and suicide, she touches on those most sentimental moments and the inner monologues that accompany them. Something as simple as throwing a party, trivial as it seems, is penetrated by inspirations, hurts, wants and expectations. She reminds us of the gentle, yet complex and destructive characteristics of our own minds. Brilliant.

Extraordinarily boring

This book is my first exposure to Virginia Woolf. After reading a chapter or two, I found myself in the driveway putting stones in my pocket and then heading to the pond. And then I had an epiphany. Virginia Woolf must have been compelled to kill herself after reading her own book. The entire book is a vapid an insipid mess and I have no idea why anyone reads it.