Mrs. Dalloway

Resumen del libro

Bold and experimental, Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better and better with every reading.On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway fashionable, worldly, wealthy and an accomplished hostess sets off to buy flowers for the party she will host that evening. She is preoccupied with thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her interior monologue emerge the people who have touched her life.On the same day, Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked survivor of the Great War, commits suicide, and casual mention of his death at the party provokes in Clarissa thoughts of her own isolation and loneliness.Parties and Passions, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Great Gatsby are also available in this Macmillan Collectors Library series of gorgeous paperbacks featuring the greatest parties and the wildest passions in literature.

Biografía del autor

(1882 1941) aprendió a leer en casa gracias a la biblioteca familiar. Luego se convirtió en una de las escritoras más importantes de nuestro tiempo: crítica y ensayista, diarista y autora de una extensa correspondencia, novelista y, desde luego, lectora. También fue editora, y ¿Cómo debería leerse un libro? es quizá su texto más célebre sobre lo que ocurre con los libros una vez que caen en manos de quien los lee.