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Dalloway, revealing the novel’s artistry and astonishing originality.

In this annotated volume based on the original British edition, acclaimed essayist and Oxford don Merve Emre mines Woolf’s diaries and notes on writing to take us into the making of Mrs. A pivotal work of literary modernism, its simple plot-centred on an upper-class Londoner preparing to give a party-is complicated by Woolf’s satire of the English social system.įor decades, Woolf’s rapturous style and vision of individual consciousness have challenged and inspired readers, novelists and scholars alike. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf’s masterpiece. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf’s beloved fourth novel.