Mrs Dalloway

Like Ulysses, which Virginia and Leonard Woolf considered for publication at the Hogarth Press, the action of Mrs Dalloway takes place over the course of a single day in June and is told through streams of consciousness, punctuated here by the leaden chimes of Big Ben. The narrative is shared between the middle-aged Clarissa Dalloway, preparing for a party, and Septimus Smith, a First World War ve...