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Mrs. Dalloway (Essential Penguin) (Paperback)
by Virginia Woolf (Author)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed edition (25 Feb 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140282548
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140282542
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.2 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
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Clarissa Dalloway, the fashionable wife of a member of parliament, is seen in this novel largely through the impressions and memories within her mind. Moreover, the action is contained within the limits of a single day - the day on which she is to hold an important party.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A sensitive study of two people in one day-in-the-life, 15 Feb 2003
Being no fan of stream of conscious style I didn't expect to like MD. I was pleasantly surprised though as Woolf, unlike many writers such as James Joyce who use stream of conscious to ramble the reader into unconsciousness, Woolf uses this mechanism to add to her characters and not as a means in itself.
Clarissa Dalloway and friend Septimus Smith go about their daily life getting ready for the Dalloway's party. In this humdrum life many of their issues are brought to the surface and we see them either pushing them back down to concentrate on the present or challenging them head on.
Woolf's portrayal of Clarissa as a sensitive yet strong woman is her subtle link to her feminist non-fiction. Clarissa is no unopinionated or invisible Edwardian woman but is restricted by the times and social conventions she lives in.
Even though in one day of Clarissa's life she remains in exactly the same place she started from the book feels in no way incomplete- we have learnt about Clarissa and Septimus- their lives and thoughts- and this is where the novel has it's real meaning. At around two hundred and fifty pages the story is neither too long nor short and gives the reader a perfect amount of time to absorb themselves into the individuals lives.
Perhaps as "real" as any book has ever been (and especially one of Edwardian times) MD tells about ordinary life and its internal struggles kept under an everyday veneer.
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