ISBN: 9780099470458
Release Date: 06 Mar 2008
Average rating: (read by 59 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and, met with the realities of the present, she re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.

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HJDaugherty
Rated it 1 months ago
My favourite Woolf novel. I'm still impressed with this book and marvel at how a brief sketch of a woman's character reveals her entire life and captures the essence of an era.

kristie13
Rated it 6 months ago
Virginia Woolf does an amazing job of questioning life and thought process while simply telling the reader a story about a woman who is planning a party. Simply amazing.

BookwormMum
Rated it 9 months ago
Groundbreaking!

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