Mrs. Dalloway /
Virginia Woolf.
- 1st ed
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993.
- xxviii, 219 p. ; 22 cm.
- Everyman's library ; 157 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. xx-xxi).
Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and significance–infusing it with the elemental conflict between death and life–
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction. Middle-aged women--Fiction. Suicide victims--Fiction. Married women--Fiction. First loves--Fiction. Parties--Fiction. Regret--Fiction.