Mrs Dalloway Hb Everymans Library Classics

Mrs Dalloway is Virginia Woolf’s 1925 modernist novel about a single June day in post-First World War London. Clarissa Dalloway prepares for an evening party, moving through ordinary errands while her thoughts return to youthful love, friendship, marriage, ageing, social expectation, and the choices that have shaped her life. Alongside Clarissa’s story runs that of Septimus Warren Smith, a young veteran living with profound psychological trauma after the war. Although the two never meet, Woolf links their experiences through questions of isolation, mental suffering, mortality, social constraint, and the rich but hidden complexity of inner life. Woolf’s shifting, stream-of-consciousness narration moves fluidly across several characters’ minds, making the novel a landmark exploration of time, memory, and perception. The Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics hardback edition includes an introduction by Nadia Fusini and uses the original British text, which contains revisions Woolf made that were omitted from early American editions.