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Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway

Paper book: €26.99

Digital: €10.99

Original publication
1925
Bilingual edition
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

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…

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