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Overview

Virginia Woolf's classic “stream of consciousness” novel revolves around one day in a woman's life in post-war London, 1923.

Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she makes preparations she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.

On the same day, the war inflicted Septimus is struggling to keep his dark thoughts and vivid flashbacks from overwhelming him, leading to a catastrophic turn of events.

We encounter a vast array of characters through their internal monologues, all of which touch Clarissa's life in some way and are all brought together by her party.

This audiobook version has been succinctly broken into chapters reflecting each character's point of view.

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Publishers Weekly

As Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a party in 1920s London, she is unexpectedly reunited with her old friend Peter Walsh in a novel that shifts among the inner monologues of its many characters and is darkened by the terrors and hallucinations of parallel protagonist Septimus Smith. Juliet Stevenson’s performance--with its lyricism and lilt--is perfectly matched to Woolf’s text and transports the listener. Stevenson produces a delightful range of distinct voices--her introspective, fragile Clarissa and stormy Peter are particularly strong. (May)

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Perhaps her masterpiece...Exquisite and superbly constructed…Required like most writers to choose between the surface and the depths as the basis of her operations, she chooses the surface and then burrows in as far as she can.” –E. M. Forster

"Hers is indisputably among the most sensitive of the minds and imaginations felicitously experimenting with the English novel.” –Jorge Luis Borges

"Clarissa [Dalloway] is...conceived so brilliantly, dimensioned so thoroughly and documented so absolutely that her type, in the words of Constantin Stanislavsky, might be said to have been done 'inviolably and for all time.'" –The New York Times

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BN ID:	2940178786284
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	12/28/2021
Edition description:	Unabridged

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As Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a party in 1920s London, she is unexpectedly reunited with her old friend Peter Walsh in a novel that shifts among the inner monologues of its many characters and is darkened by the terrors and hallucinations of parallel protagonist Septimus Smith. Juliet Stevenson’s performance--with its lyricism and lilt--is perfectly matched to Woolf’s text and transports the listener. Stevenson produces a delightful range of distinct voices--her introspective, fragile Clarissa and stormy Peter are particularly strong. (May)

Publishers Weekly

Perhaps her masterpiece...Exquisite and superbly constructed…Required like most writers to choose between the surface and the depths as the basis of her operations, she chooses the surface and then burrows in as far as she can.” –E. M. Forster

"Hers is indisputably among the most sensitive of the minds and imaginations felicitously experimenting with the English novel.” –Jorge Luis Borges

"Clarissa [Dalloway] is...conceived so brilliantly, dimensioned so thoroughly and documented so absolutely that her type, in the words of Constantin Stanislavsky, might be said to have been done 'inviolably and for all time.'" –The New York Times

From the Publisher