02634cam a2200349 4500 898562563 TxAuBib 20230808120000.0 201027s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020048510 9780143136132 PAP 16.00 0143136135 PAP 16.00 TxAuBib Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, author. Mrs. Dalloway [BOOK] / Virginia Woolf ; foreword by Jenny Offill ; introduction and notes by Elaine Showalter ; edited by Stella McNichol. Penguin Classics deluxe edition. [New York : Penguin Books, 2021. lvii, 179 pages : illustration ; 22 cm. Originally published, 1925. Includes bibliographical references. ""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the partyreaches its glittering climax. In this engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, in which she perfects the interior monologue and recapitulates the life cycle in the hours of the day, from first light to the dark of night, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, impression by impression, minute by minute, the feel of life itself. This edition is collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author's intentions, and includes a catalog of emendations, a stirringly personal foreword by bestselling novelist Jenny Offill, an illuminating introduction and endnotes by the distinguished feminist critic Elaine Showalter, and a map of Mrs. Dalloway's London"-- Provided by publisher. 20230808. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction. Middle-aged women Fiction. Married women Fiction. Suicide victims Fiction. Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Offill, Jenny, 1968-, writer of foreword. Showalter, Elaine, writer of introduction. McNichol, Stella, editor.