| Mrs. Dalloway: Introduction by Nadia Fusini Contributor(s): Woolf, Virginia (Author), Fusini, Nadia (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679420428 ISBN-13: 9780679420422 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1993 Annotation: Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more. It is the feelings that loom behind those daily events--the social alliances, the shopkeeper's exchange, the fact of death--that give Mrs. Dalloway texture and richness. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92054300 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.27" W x 8.33" (0.85 lbs) 264 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 74683 Reading Level: 7.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 11.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description:
Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway-a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and significance-infusing it with the elemental conflict between death and life-Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist. Originally published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway is Woolf's first complete rendering of what she described as the "luminous envelope" of consciousness: a dazzling display of the mind's inside as it plays over the brilliant surface and darker depths of reality.
This edition uses the text of the original British publication of Mrs. Dalloway, which includes changes Woolf made that never appeared in the first or subsequent American editions. |