Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf author Carol Ann Duffy editor valentine cunningham editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Publishing:1st May '25

£20.00

This title is due to be published on 1st May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Mrs Dalloway cover

Celebrate the 100th birthday of a groundbreaking novel with this very special hardback based on the first edition published by the Hogarth Press.

Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to give a party. Over the course of one day, as she readies her house, Clarissa is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.

Virginia Woolf started writing Mrs Dalloway in 1922 as a short story. Its publication in 1925 was met with modest commercial success but the novel went on to become one of the most vital works of literature of the last century.

The text of this centenary edition of Mrs Dalloway is based on the original Hogarth Press edition, published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf on 14 May 1925. The dust jacket features the original cover created by Virginia Woolf ’s sister, Vanessa Bell, for the Hogarth Press. Beneath the cover ‘deep rust’ boards printed in gilt take inspiration from the finish of the first trade edition.

'Sheer magic' Daily Mail


'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

Mrs Dalloway 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—

A beautiful piece of writing—Guardian

I think To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway are sheer magic—Daily Express

Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse showed how experimental writing could reshape our sense of ordinary life. Taking unremarkable materials - preparations for a genteel party, a day on a bourgeois family holiday - they trace the flow of associations and ideas that we call "consciousness".—Guardian

A beautiful ode to dignity, memory and survivalSunday Times

ISBN: 9781529946321

Dimensions: 222mm x 143mm x 30mm

Weight: 408g

304 pages