Publisher Description
An Apple Books Classic edition.
A landmark of modernist fiction, Mrs. Dalloway turns the ordinary events of a single June day into a powerful meditation on how lives are shaped by choices made and chances missed.
As Clarissa Dalloway moves through the city preparing for a party, her memories surface, revealing both the joy she feels in the world and the sorrow she keeps tucked away. Septimus Warren Smith, a traumatized World War I veteran, walks the same streets. Their paths never cross, yet their stories reflect each other—one hiding hurt behind social sparkle, the other carrying wounds no one can see.
Virginia Woolf writes with rare insight into how the mind moves, capturing the fragile beauty of everyday moments. Mrs. Dalloway illuminates the delicate balance between the outer life we show and the inner life we protect.
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As Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a party in 1920s London, she is unexpectedly reunited with her old friend Peter Walsh in a novel that shifts among the inner monologues of its many characters and is darkened by the terrors and hallucinations of parallel protagonist Septimus Smith. Juliet Stevenson s performance with its lyricism and lilt is perfectly matched to Woolf s text and transports the listener. Stevenson produces a delightful range of distinct voices her introspective, fragile Clarissa and stormy Peter are particularly strong.
