Mrs Dalloway - Brossura

Woolf, Virginia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0241371945 ISBN 13: 9780241371947

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2019

Riassunto

'She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day'

Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.

Edited by Stella McNichol
With an introduction and notes by Elaine Showalter

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Recensione

One of the few genuine innovations in the history of the novel (New Yorker)

One of her greatest achievements, a book whose afterlife continues to inspire new generations of writers and readers (Guardian)

L'autore

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0241371945
• ISBN 13: 9780241371947
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Redattore: McNichol Stella, Showalter Elaine