Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway

Author: Virginia Woolf

Narrator: Rachel Wilson

Unabridged: 7 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ink-Mag Audio

Published: 02/07/2026


Synopsis

Mrs Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." Join Clarissa Dalloway on a transformative day in post-war London, where the boundaries of time, memory, and reality blur. Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece weaves together the inner lives of Clarissa and Septimus Smith, a shell-shocked war veteran, as their paths converge in the city's vibrant streets.
In this immersive exploration of human consciousness, Woolf masterfully captures the fluidity of time and the intricate web of thoughts, emotions, and experiences that shape our lives. As Clarissa prepares for her evening party, memories of love, loss, and identity resurface, while Septimus grapples with the devastating impact of war.
Through Woolf's innovative stream-of-consciousness narrative, the past and present intertwine, revealing the profound connections between these two characters and the world around them. This meticulously edited edition, collated from all known proofs and manuscripts, ensures a rich and authentic listening experience.
Features:
- Elaine Showalter's insightful introduction and endnotes- A map of Mrs. Dalloway's London, bringing the setting to life- A catalog of emendations, ensuring textual accuracy- Woolf's lyrical prose, expertly narrated
Limbur into the heart of London and the depths of the human experience with Mrs Dalloway, a timeless exploration of love, trauma, and the search for meaning.

About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist, and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. In 1917, she and her husband founded the Hogarth Press, which published the work of T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Katherine Mansfield, as well as the earliest translations of Sigmund Freud. Her major novels include Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves, The Years, and Between the Acts. She is also the author of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob's Room, A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on June 11, 2012

Experiencing Mrs. Dalloway is like being a piece of luggage on an airport conveyor belt, traversing lazily through a crowd of passengers, over and around and back again, but with the added bonus of being able to read people’s thoughts as they pass; this one checking his flight schedule, that one arg......more

Goodreads review by emma on June 18, 2024

shoutout to virginia woolf for doing the lord's work (writing short books that make you look smart). this is a great interesting beautifully written compelling makes-you-think type book that usually has a gorgeous cover and can be read over the course of one lazy afternoon. no notes! bottom line: thank......more

Goodreads review by Leonard on March 10, 2021

What a lark! What a plunge! There is a famous episode in the first section of Mrs Dalloway where a sky-writing aeroplane flies over London, soaring, spinning and plunging, writing in white letters of steam on a radiant sheet of blue sky. The onlookers on the ground, strolling down Regent’s Park and......more

Goodreads review by Bram on December 03, 2009

While reading her works, I get the impression that Virginia Woolf knows everything about people and that she understands life better than anyone, ever. Is there a single hidden feeling or uncommon perspective with which she is not intimately acquainted? And does anyone else draw forth these feelings......more

Goodreads review by Jim on April 24, 2022

[Revised, pictures add 4/24/22] Virginia Woolf set out to write an unconventional novel and succeeded, although since she wrote, we have read so many unconventional novels that it seems tame. In her introduction to the edition I read, Maureen Howard writes: “If ever there was a work conceived in resp......more