Mrs Dalloway

On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway - fashionable, worldly, wealthy, 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.,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.,This elegant Macmillan Collectors Library edition of Virginia Woolfs modernist classic features an afterword by editor and publisher Anna South.,Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collectors Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collectors Library are books to love and treasure.,This elegant Macmillan Collectors Library edition of Virginia Woolfs modernist classic features an afterword by editor and publisher Anna South.,Единство потока в шедевре Вирджинии Вулф Миссис Дэллоуэй в корне изменило традиционную литературную форму романа, а также дало возможность прочувствовать истинную гуманность, сострадание и одновременно наполненность и опустошение жизни. Светская дама Кларисса Дэллоуей организовывает вечеринку. Через ее мысли и переживания того дня и внутренний монолог людей, чьи жизни тесно переплетены между собой, постепенно открывается внутренний мир главных героев. Трагедия жизни Клариссы развивается параллельно с трагедией Септимуса Ворена Смита, чье безумие достигает высшей точки, и жизнь его заканчивается неизбежным самоубийством.,On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway - fashionable, worldly, wealthy, 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.