Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel traces the course of a single June day in London, following Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for an evening party. Through a fluid, stream-of-consciousness narrative, the story interweaves Clarissa’s present errands with memories of her youth, her first love, and the social constraints that shaped her life. The plot is punctuated by the parallel trajectory of Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked veteran whose mental disintegration and eventual suicide serve as a stark counterpoint to Clarissa’s social stability and her own quiet crises of identity.

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