Mrs. Dalloway (eBook)

Virginia Woolf (Autor)

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2021
141 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-406638801-0 (EAN)

Infos

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.

Autor

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.1.2021
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 1920s London • British modernist literature • existential dread • feminist themes • High Society • Jane Austen • Jane Eyre • My Brilliant Friend • post-world war I • Psychological exploration • social gatherings • Stream of Consciousness • Thomas Wolfe • Ulysses • Virginia Woolf