Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf · 1925 CE · Novel · English · Modernist

Clarissa Dalloway spends a June day in London preparing to give a party. Her hours are braided with those of a shell-shocked veteran she never meets, and with memories of the choices that fixed her life. One day, many minds, the party and the catastrophe held in a single breath.

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• influenced by ↑ Ulysses
  James Joyce · 1922 CE · Novel

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