Mrs. Dalloway - (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Virginia Woolf (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Enter the world of Clarissa Dalloway and enjoy the writings of one of the most prolific female authors of the 20th century with this beautifully rejuvenated edition of Woolf's novel.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Weather</i> and <i>Dept. of Speculation</i> <p/>A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition</b> <p/>Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. In a novel in which she perfects the interior monologue and recapitulates the life cycle in the hours of the day, from first light to the dark of night, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, impression by impression, minute by minute, the feel of life itself. <p/>This edition is collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author's intentions, and includes a catalog of emendations, an illuminating introduction and endnotes by the distinguished feminist critic Elaine Showalter, and a map of Mrs. Dalloway's London.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Woolf's classic feels even more relevant after a year of lockdown has rendered many of us so frantically introspective. . . . This new Penguin Classics edition is superb." ―<b>Ron Charles, The Washington Post Book Club</b> <p/>"A revelation . . . A remarkably expansive and an irreducibly strange book. Nothing you might read in a plot summary prepares you for the multitudes it contains." ―<b>Jenny Offill, from the Foreword <p/></b>"One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." ―<b>Michael Cunningham</b> <p/>At a time when our most ordinary acts―shopping, taking a walk―have come to seem momentous, a matter of life or death, Clarissa's vision of everyday shopping as a high-stakes adventure resonates in a peculiar way. We are all Mrs. Dalloway now. ―<b><i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Virginia Woolf </b>(1882-1941), one of the great twentieth-century authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She published her first novel, <i>The Voyage Out, </i> in 1915, and between 1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, including <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i> (1925), <i>To the Lighthouse</i> (1927), and <i>The Waves</i> (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive <i>Orlando</i> (1928) and the passionate feminist essay <i>A Room of One's Own</i> (1929).<br/><br/><b>Jenny Offill </b>(foreword) is the author of the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling novel <i>Weather</i>; the nationally bestselling novel <i>Dept. of Speculation</i>, which was one of <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>'s Ten Best Books of 2014; and the novel <i>Last Things</i>, which was a <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book and a finalist for the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize for First Fiction. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Bard College and in the low residency program at Queens University of Charlotte.<br/><br/><b>Elaine Showalter</b> (introduction, notes) is Professor of English, Emerita, at Princeton University, and the author of many works of feminist literary criticism.<br/><br/><b>Stella McNichol</b> (editor) was the author of several critical studies on Virginia Woolf.
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