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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

Een onverwacht bezoek. Op een junimorgen in Londen gaat Clarissa Dalloway, een elegante dame, bloemen kopen. Thuis verstelt ze haar jurk voor de avond. Plotseling gaat de bel: het is Peter Walsh, de man met wie ze in…

The world of the book

Londen, juni 1923. Het hele boek speelt zich af op één dag in Londen, vijf jaar na het einde van de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Clarissa Dalloway, de heldin, woont in de wijk rond het parlement, waar haar man parlementslid…

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