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Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway

Paper book: €21.99

Digital: €5.99

Original publication
1925
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
473
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Philosophy, Psychology
Moods
Understand myself, Savour the writing, Think it through
Translated from
English

Book summary

On a fine June morning in London, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing the party she is giving that evening. As the day goes by, marked by the chimes of Big Ben, she thinks back to her youth and to Peter Walsh, the man she did not marry. Elsewhere in the city, Septimus, a former soldier, still carries the war inside him.

The whole novel takes place in a single day, and we move from one character to another as if we could hear them think. Its first line, in which Mrs Dalloway says she will buy the flowers herself, has become famous.

With the translation always in front of you, you can read this great classic in the language you are learning.

The plot

Μια απρόσμενη επίσκεψη. Ένα πρωινό του Ιουνίου, στο Λονδίνο, η Κλαρίσα Ντάλαγουεϊ, μια κομψή κυρία, βγαίνει να αγοράσει λουλούδια. Γυρνώντας σπίτι, μπαλώνει το φόρεμά της για το βράδυ. Ξαφνικά χτυπά το κουδούνι: είναι…

The world of the book

Λονδίνο, Ιούνιος 1923. Όλο το βιβλίο εκτυλίσσεται σε μία μέρα, στο Λονδίνο, πέντε χρόνια μετά το τέλος του Α΄ Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου. Η ηρωίδα, η Κλαρίσα Ντάλαγουεϊ, μένει στη συνοικία του Κοινοβουλίου, όπου ο άντρας της…

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