{"product_id":"mrs-dalloway-annotated-the-virginia-woolf-library-annotated-edition-isbn-9780156030359","title":"Mrs. Dalloway (annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated  Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe annotated, authorized edition of Virginia Woolf's celebrated \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway,\u003c\/i\u003e named one of \u003ci\u003eTime's\u003c\/i\u003e 100 Best Novels, features commentary by Women's Studies professor Bonnie Kime Scott.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this pioneering stream of consciousness novel, a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman’s life, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house for friends and neighbors, she is flooded with remembrances of the past—the passionate loves of her carefree youth, her practical choice of husband, and the approach and retreat of war. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the introspective Clarissa, to the lover who never fully recovered from her rejection, to a war-ravaged stranger in the park battling shell shock, the characters and scope of \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e reshape our sense of ordinary life making it one of the most \"moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century\" (Michael Cunningham).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis authorized edition from the Virginia Woolf library features:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiographical Preface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChronology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction to the text\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtensive notes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSuggestions for further reading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis annotated edition is the perfect companion to more fully understand \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway,\u003c\/i\u003e its importance in twentieth century literature, and the world of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eOne of the 100 Best English-language Novels - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMrs. Dalloway \u003c\/em\u003ealso contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English, and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Cunningham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/em\u003e is a standout work in a standout career, a hallmark of the Modernist movement, and a splendid, wrenching, subtle psychological novel, beloved in its day and beloved now.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLithub, \"The 10 Books That Defined the 1920s\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Woolf is Modern. She feels close to us.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeanette Winterson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Virginia Woolf is one of the few writers who changed life for all of us. Her combination of intellectual courage and painful emotional sensitivity created a new way of perceiving and living in the world.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargaret Drabble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hers is indisputably among the most sensitive of the minds and imaginations felicitously experimenting with the English novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJorge Luis Borges\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889872072933,"sku":"NP9780156030359","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780156030359.jpg?v=1730232084","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mrs-dalloway-annotated-the-virginia-woolf-library-annotated-edition-isbn-9780156030359","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}