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Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Annette Bening
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Mrs. Dalloway, perhaps Virginia Woolf’s greatest novel, follows English socialite Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for a party in post-World War I London. Four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening (American Beauty, The Kids Are All Right) performs Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness style of storytelling brilliantly, exploring the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life.

When we first meet Clarissa Dalloway, she is preoccupied with the last-minute minutiae of party-planning while being flooded with memories of long ago. Clarissa then examines the realities of the present as the story travels forwards and back in time and in and out of different characters’ minds.

Mrs. Dalloway is daring not only in its stream-of-consciousness form, but also in its content. Woolf’s depiction of Septimus Warren Smith brings to light the ugly and often ignored truth of how the brutality of war can drive men mad. We also get to see in depth how our main protagonist, Clarissa Dalloway, suffers from her own form of psychological damage: the more subtle, everyday oppression of English society.

©1925 The Estate of Virginia Woolf (P)2012 Audible, Inc. Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Fiction
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A portrait of Mrs Clarissa Dalloway through multiple perspectives and points of view, including her own. The prose flows in lyrical streams of consciousness in momentary, sensory flashes, from Mrs Dalloway and those who surround her. Poetic, lyric, exquisite prose, this highly original work breaks open character conventions to reveal the social niceties, anxieties and hypocrisy of the times.

Highly original with poetic prose

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