![]() ![]() It was unsatisfactory, they agreed, how little one knew people. For how could they know each other? You met every day then not for six months, or years. It was to explain the feeling they had of dissatisfaction not knowing people not being known. “Clarissa had a theory in those days - they had heaps of theories, always theories, as young people have. Dalloway chronicles all of the innermost thoughts in the day of the life of middle-aged society lady Clarissa Dalloway as she goes about planning a dinner party. With this, Virginia Woolf changed the novel forever. ![]() ![]() Dalloway uses the internal monologues of the characters to tell a story of inter-war England. Meanwhile, the shell-shocked Septimus Smith is struggling with his life on the same London day. Whom will she see? Her friend Peter, back from India, who has never really stopped loving her? What about Sally, with whom Clarissa had her life’s happiest moment? It is a June day in London in 1923, and the lovely Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. 1925, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 216 pages ![]()
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