Mrs. Dalloway (Summarized Edition)

Set over a single June day in postwar London, MRS. DALLOWAY follows Clarissa Dalloway preparing for a party, counterpointed with the haunted interior of Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked veteran. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness, marked by the chimes of Big Ben, braids memory, time, and social ritual. The novel consolidates high modernism's urban poetics, diverging from Joyce's single-day expe...