{"product_id":"mrs-dalloway-virginia-woolf-2","title":"Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eElegantly interweaving her characters' complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003econtinues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time, space, madness and regret. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella McNichol with an introduction and notes by Elaine Showalter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePast, present and future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923.\u003cbr\u003eClarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh, and dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly-approaching adulthood. In another part of London, war veteran Septimus Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness, slowly spiralling towards self-annihilation. Their experiences mingling, yet never quite meeting, Virginia Woolf masterfully portrays a serendipitous unity of inner lives, converging as the party reaches its glittering climax.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOrlando\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1928) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1929) a passionate feminist essay.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56435790905724,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/MD-VW-03_ff54218f-04c0-4cc0-8aa7-156a869b6927.jpg?v=1772564406","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/mrs-dalloway-virginia-woolf-2","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}