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The Mrs. Dalloway Reader

The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

Virginia Woolf

400 Pages

On-Sale Date: 01/11/2004

ISBN: 9780156030151

Trim Size: 5.200in x 8.000in x 1.200in

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$32.95

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This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece, plus Mrs. Dalloway’s Party and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book’s genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations, critical views, and commentary by writers famous and unknown. Now with additional scholarly commentary by Mark Hussey, professor of English at Pace University, this complete volume illuminates the creation of a celebrated story and the genius of its author.

Includes essays and commentary from:
Michael Cunningham
E. M. Forster
Margo Jefferson
James Wood
Mary Gordon
Elaine Showalter
Daniel Mendelsohn
Sigrid Nunez
Deborah Eisenberg
Elissa Schappell

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and Orlando.

Francine Prose is the award-winning author of a dozen works of fiction. She is a director’s fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers and lives in New York City.

Praise for Mrs. Dalloway
“Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. If the novel before Mrs. Dalloway aspired to immensities of scope and scale, to heroic journeys across vast landscapes, with Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf insisted that it could also locate the enormous within the everyday.”
-Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
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