The Mrs. Dalloway Reader

This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations, critical views, and commentary by writers famous and unknown. Now with additional scholarly commentary by Mark Hussey, professor of English at Pace University, this complete volume illuminates the creation of a celebrated story and the genius of its author.

Includes essays and commentary from:
Michael Cunningham
E. M. Forster
Margo Jefferson
James Wood
Mary Gordon
Elaine Showalter
Daniel Mendelsohn
Sigrid Nunez
Deborah Eisenberg
Elissa Schappell

• The Hours: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)
• No Exit and Three Other Plays
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• King Lear (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• The Incendiaries: A Novel
• Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
• Warm Bodies: A Novel (The Warm Bodies Series)
• Ulysses (The Gabler Edition)
• The Tempest
• Dubliners (Norton Critical Editions)