The result is not only an essential volume for students and Woolf devotees, but an incomparable gift to all lovers of literature.

Alongside her generous commentary, Emre offers hundreds of illustrations and little-known photographs from Woolf's life. Dalloway, revealing the novel's artistry and astonishing originality. Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land, a text that sets out to depict the modern world: a world of the metropolis (London, as with Eliot’s poem), motorcars, aeroplanes, and other recent phenomena. In this annotated volume based on the original British edition, acclaimed essayist and Oxford don Merve Emre mines Woolf's diaries and notes on writing to take us into the making of Mrs. Dalloway has long been viewed not only as Woolfs masterpiece, but as a pivotal work of literary modernism and one of the most significant and influential novels of the 20th century. Professor Merve Emre presents The Annotated Mrs Dalloway, painting a rapturous portrait of Woolf s originality, while author of Ulysses: A Readers Odyssey. Mrs Dalloway is, like another work of modernism, T. A pivotal work of literary modernism, its simple plot-centered on an upper-class Londoner preparing to give a party-is complicated by Woolf's satire of the English social system.įor decades, Woolf's rapturous style and vision of individual consciousness have challenged and inspired readers, novelists, and scholars alike. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf's masterpiece. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' So begins Virginia Woolf's much-beloved fourth novel. Dalloway traces the course of one day, following Clarissa Dalloway, a woman of great presence, and Septimus Warren Smith, a World War I.

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