Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
One of the most exquisite literary works of the twentieth century. A masterpiece of the “golden age” of English modernism, first published in 1925. A novel included in the list of “100 best books of the twentieth century”, according to the Times.On the surface, very little happens in “Mrs. Dalloway” a young society lady prepares to receive guests, the man who once loved her in her youth returns to London after a long absence, a young veteran of the First World War is sinking deeper and deeper into the black mire of “war syndrome”. However, the content of the novel is far from being limited by its plot, or even by the brilliance of its sophisticated form – what matters here is not what the characters say or do, but what they think and feel at the same time….
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway