Mrs Dalloway

" She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous toive even one day. "Wednesday, June 1923; post-war Britain. " Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. "And thus begin the preparations of Clarissa Dalloway's party. As she goes aroundondon, memories of the past embrace her and she iseft introspecting about the decisions she has made inife andove. In another part of the city, Septimus Warren Smith, a veteran of the first World War, is spending the day with his wife. He is suffering from shell shock and hallucinations. What happens as their day andife entwines. Narrated in the stream of consciousness mode, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is a unique novel in that it takes place in a single day. The novel highlights the broken inner state of people after the first World War. One of her greatest achievements, the book was included in the Time' sist of the 100 Best English-language novels written since 1923. The novel has undergone various film adaptations and continues to inspire its readers.

Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882, she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895.