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  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Harcourt Publishers Ltd College Publishers; 1st Harvest/HBJ Ed edition (Sep 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0156628708
  • ISBN-13: 978-0156628709
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.7 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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Clarissa Dalloway is civilised--without the ostentation of a socialite, but with enough distinction to attract them to her parties. She finds excess offensive, but surrounds herself with the highest quality and has an abhorrence for anything ugly or awkward. Mrs. Dalloway is as much a character study as it is a commentary on the ills and benefits society gleans from class. Through Virginia Woolf, we spend a day with Clarissa as she interacts with servants, her children, her husband, and even an ex-lover. As she plans and executes one of her celebrated parties, she reveals inner machinations incongruous with her class-defined behaviors, that ultimately enable her to transcend them. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Most accessible of Woolf, 21 Feb 2006
This review is from: Mrs. Dalloway (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
After reading "To The Lighthouse" I found "Mrs Dalloway" to be a much easier read but equally pleasurable, in this novel Woolf in my opinion perfects her "Streams of Conciousness" technique to a point where the characters and scenery of London presented harmonise in a way that provokes a new outlook on many subjects. As with all Woolf, the Feminist ideas are nearly always at the fore, struggling to find identity the main character Clarissa knows she is always to be called, outside the home, "Mrs Richard Dalloway". But Woolf does far more than tackle the constrants of the time, she also considers mental health, man and woman relationships, how we place ourselves in our society and many other themes that have equall relevance today, coupling these themes with an easily understood "streams of conciousness" technique this is a great read, though I strongly advise buying the Penguin edition if you wish to read the novel more than once!!!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Parties and suicide, 29 Sep 2007
This review is from: Mrs. Dalloway (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
This novel follows Clarissa Dalloway as she plans and throws a party for the high society in London. It follows both her and a selection of guests through their thoughts, feelings and conversations before and during the event. In a seemingly unrelated story, the novel also follows Septimus Warren Smith and his wife Rezia. They also live in London, he was in the War and he met Rezia whilst in Italy where she made hats with her sisters. He is suffering from a form of post-traumatic stress disorder which was undiagnosed at the time the novel is set (early 1030's). He is talking of killing himself and has visions of his officer who died during the war in front of him.

The two stories intertwine nicely and I enjoyed getting to know all the different characters. Clarissa is a funny lady, I wasn't sure what to make of her. It seemed she didn't quite get what she wanted out of life and was a bit silly, yet at the same time she was well liked and well thought of by all (with only one exception). Most of the characters were flawed and dealing with different kinds of unhappiness. Mr Dalloway was never really able to tell Clarissa that he loved her, their daughter missed the country, Peter Walsh never really got over loving Clarissa, Rezia missed home etc. The person I probably felt the most sorry for was Rezia. She married a charming English war hero, who then took away all affection for her after a few years of marriage. She left all her friends and family to be with him and was desperately unhappy. I wonder if she returned home after the end of the novel.

It was due to end with Clarissa killing herself originally. I am really glad Woolf changed the story to exclude this as it really wouldn't have felt right. She wasn't satisfied with what she had, but it would have seemed unjustified had it ended so abruptly. Very real and well told, a good snapshot looking into the lives of others and the human condition.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Mixed, 3 Jul 2007
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First of all a warning to any potential reader: the stream of consciousness movement can be very difficult to follow and this is not a particularly pleasurable read. The prose can be confusing and challenging and in the end I decided that I am not a Virginia Woolf fan.

Whilst the consciousness idea does allow for a seamless joining of action, dialogue and description, I find that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages and that the question "what is wrong with a narrative?" needs to be asked. Rather than slowly digesting information, Woolf throws prose at us and we have to digest it all at once. I found myself reading sections again and again so that I could get the best out of them and the end result is tough going and even annoying.

The end result was, perhaps, worth it (even if only to stop me reading Woolf ever again) and the book reminds us of the tiny decisions we make in our lives having larger effects in the future and of the routes and paths that bring us to the present day; however, it seems to be senseless to read this when there are many other novels that are more rewarding and much less hard going - try E.M. Forster, H.G. Wells and D.H. Lawrence for a more pleasurable book.
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