Mrs Dalloway (Alma Evergreen Classics)

"She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day."
     As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts through-out the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue inter-weaves with the account of the distress, on that same day, of the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith, whose trauma and hallucinations end in tragedy, as the links between the two characters unfold.
     One of Virginia Woolf's most famous novels, Mrs Dalloway is a triumph of experimen-tation, a cornerstone of Modernism and a subtle examination of love, freedom, mental illness and the female condition in society.