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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

思いがけない訪問。6月のある朝、ロンドン。上品な婦人クラリッサ・ダロウェイは花を買いに出かける。帰宅すると、夜のためにドレスを繕う。そこへ呼び鈴が鳴る。ピーター・ウォルシュだ。若い頃、彼女が結婚を断った男。インドから戻った彼の訪問は、まったく思いがけないものだった。

The world of the book

1923年6月のロンドン。物語はすべて、第一次世界大戦の終結から5年後のロンドンの一日に起こる。主人公クラリッサ・ダロウェイは国会議事堂のある地区に住み、夫は下院議員。バスや人々で賑わう通りの上空では、飛行機が広告の文字を描く。1時間ごとに、大時計ビッグ・ベンが街に鐘を響かせる。

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