Mrs. Dalloway

"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf is a novel published in 1925. It follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in post-World War I London, as she prepares to host an evening party. Through stream of consciousness narration, the story weaves between present moments and memories, exploring Clarissa's past relationships and choices. A parallel narrative follows Septimus Warren Smith, a war veteran struggling with trauma, whose fate will unexpectedly touch Clarissa's world by day's end.

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