Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last minute details of a party she is to give that evening, while in her mind she is much more than a perfect society hostess. As she redies her house she is flooded with memroies and, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa re-examines the choices she has made, hesitantly looking ahead to growing old. Undeniably triumphant, this is the inspired novelistic outline of human conciousness.

Reviewed by funstm on

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My biggest problem with this book is the writing. She writes and writes and writes and it's like she barely stops for air. There are no pauses or breaks and I found it exhausting. Yes I know, stream of consciousness. But I hate it. 160 pages felt like 160,000 pages.

Plus I didn't like Clarissa or Septimus and the story was boring.

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