Mrs Dalloway (Oxfords World Classics)

'Fear No More the Heat of the Sun.' 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.