Mrs. Dalloway
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Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved.
In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness. SmithтАЩs day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax.
Past, present, and future are brought together on a momentous June day in 1923.
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Virginia Woolf (1882тАУ1941), one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, transformed the art of the novel. She was a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. The author of numerous novels, collections of letters, journals, and short stories, she was also an admired literary critic and a master of the essay form.
Phyllida Law, a Scottish actress, has appeared in Monarch of the Glen and Waking the Dead. Born in 1932, she is also the mother of actresses Emma Thompson and Sophie Thompson.
