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Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway

Original publication
1925
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
394
Difficulty
★★★
Genres
Philosophy, Psychology
Translated from
English

Book summary

Clarissa Dalloway, a woman of London high society, prepares a party while revisiting her memories and life choices. Over the course of the day, her thoughts intertwine with those of other characters, including Septimus, a former soldier scarred by the war. Their parallel yet opposing trajectories reveal the fragility hidden behind appearances. The narrative captures moments, emotions, and reflections with great subtlety. The author explores consciousness, time, and society, offering a nuanced portrait of existence and its invisible tensions.

The plot

An unexpected visit. One June morning in London, Clarissa Dalloway, an elegant lady, goes out to buy flowers. Back home, she mends her dress for the evening. Suddenly the doorbell rings: it is Peter Walsh, the man she…

The world of the book

London, June 1923. The whole book takes place in a single day in London, five years after the end of the First World War. Clarissa Dalloway, the heroine, lives in Westminster, where her husband is a Member of…

The author

Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941. Virginia Woolf grows up in London. Her father, a well-known writer, lets her read whatever she likes in his vast library. As a young woman, she welcomes painter and writer friends every…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

The excerpt shows the method using another book from the catalogue, not this one.

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