Mrs. Dalloway

Why it caught our eye

Some novels tell the story of a lifetime. Virginia Woolf manages to capture one in a single June day.

There are books we read for pleasure, books we return to for comfort, and books that forever change the way we think about literature. Mrs. Dalloway belongs firmly in that last category.

First published in 1925, Virginia Woolf's extraordinary masterpiece takes us into the streets of postwar London, where the elegant Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to give a party. There are flowers to buy, guests to receive, and all the familiar little rituals of an ordinary day. Yet beneath these seemingly simple preparations lies an astonishingly rich world of memories, lost loves, unspoken regrets, and questions about the choices that shape our lives.

As Clarissa moves through London, Woolf takes us effortlessly between past and present, weaving together the private thoughts of strangers whose lives are touched by the same city, the same moment in history, and the fragile business of being human.

What makes Mrs. Dalloway so remarkable is not simply its story, but the revolutionary way Woolf tells it. Her luminous prose and pioneering exploration of human consciousness helped change the course of modern literature.

And more than a century later, her observations about friendship, marriage, happiness, and the passage of time feel wonderfully, sometimes startlingly, contemporary.

This handsome Signature Gilded Edition gives one of the great novels of the twentieth century a beautiful new presentation, worthy of a permanent place on the bookshelf.

A thoughtful gift for a devoted reader, a wonderful discovery for someone beginning to explore the classics, or a particularly lovely addition to one's own literary library.

Because the very best books don't simply tell us a story. They teach us to see the world a little differently.

Details

• Author: Virginia Woolf
• Hardcover collector's gift edition
• 176 pages
• Approximately 5" × 7.25"
• Original novel first published in 1925
• A landmark work of twentieth-century modernist literature
• A beautiful gift for lovers of literary classics and Virginia Woolf