Genre
Literary fiction
Mrs Dalloway
A luminous modernist novel about one day and a whole life.
Details
Subgenre
Stream-of-consciousness city novel
Original publication
14 May 1925
Original publisher
Hogarth Press
Pages
194
Format
Paperback, hardcover and ebook editions
Language
English
Setting
London on a single day after the First World War
ISBN
9780156628709
Original title
Mrs Dalloway
About the book
Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party while memory, class, trauma and mortality move through one London day.
A key fit for readers asking about modernism, inner life, time, city fiction, memory and postwar consciousness.
Woolf makes ordinary movement through the city open into memory, regret, social performance and private fear.
It is best for readers comfortable with interior style and subtle emotional architecture.
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