Mrs. Dalloway
Penguin Classics · first published 1925 · 240 pages
A single June day in London as a politician's wife prepares for her evening party and a shell-shocked veteran walks the same streets.
The narration slips from one mind to another as the clocks strike the hour, so the city itself seems to be thinking.
For a night after a long, crowded day.
About this book
Clarissa Dalloway, in her early fifties, walks out to buy flowers for the party she is giving that evening. As she moves through the city she remembers her youth at Bourton, the man she chose not to marry, and the friend she once adored. Across town, Septimus Warren Smith, a former soldier, struggles with what the war has left in him. Their paths run in parallel through the hours of one day, under the same sky.