1925High Modernism
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1882–1941 · England
Why it matters
One June day in London: a society hostess buying flowers, a shell-shocked veteran falling out of the world, consciousness streaming between them. Woolf's answer to Ulysses, and the most welcoming door into high modernism.
At a glance
modernistpsychological novel
Difficulty 7/10slow pace194 pagesContinuous stream-of-consciousness shifting between minds without typographic warning.
Deep dive
Why Clarissa and Septimus never once meet — and what her private, unwitnessed reaction to news from his side of London is actually doing inside her own party.
