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This was interesting, definitely. The main story happens in just a day as the titular Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to host a party at her place. The narration doesn't focus solely on her though; we witness the days of other people and, in extension, their lives. The main conflict is whether or not Clarissa will remain in her current life as the wife of a conservative politician, hosting parties and attending to trivialities, or be true to herself and be the adventurous, free-spirited woman she always was. The problem is she's already 52 years old with a husband, a teenage daughter, and a life that she has gotten used too somehow or other. I just wish the writing style wasn't so dense. The stream of consciousness narrative was hard to get into. If your attention drifts for even a few lines you wouldn't be able to understand the topic transitions and be forced to reread entire passages. Amazing introspective novel. Found myself drifting off while reading this book. Was not crazy about it, to much like that TV show that I didn't like - British drama -Downton Abbey. What a sad and complicated and messy little book. Belongs to Publisher SeriesLes ales esteses (335) De Bezige Bij 70 ([12]) — 18 more Fischer Taschenbuch (1982) Penguin Clothbound Classics (2020) Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2018-06) Perpetua reeks (60) Is contained inInspiredHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a studyHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guide
'Fear no more the heat of the sun.'Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent'sPark chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror ofexistence, and sense the pull of death.The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels. No library descriptions found.
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This is Thank You there we finally got to speak the same language. Look! Even our good old friend Septimus is happy once again. (