{"product_id":"9781915054944","title":"Mrs Dalloway","description":"Author: Virginia Woolf\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781915054944\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Legend Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jun 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 200\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.\u0026amp;#x27;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that features two main characters and two different worldviews. On the one hand, there is Clarissa Dalloway, who being labelled as \u003ci\u003eMrs\u003c\/i\u003e, symbolizes her marital and social confinement. On the other, the readers meet Septimus Warren Smith, who is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The lack of conventionally linear narrative and the stream of consciousness embedded in the text represents the author's take on the complexities of human existence and the ambiguity of reality. While Septimus appears mad as the war memories are haunting him, Clarissa is assumingly sane, with her existential troubles being centered around the midlife crisis - both, however, share an astute sensibility about societal maladies of post-war Britain. Even though the two characters never meet, they are inextricably connected. The story takes a twist when Clarissa in her quintessential midlife meets her first love, Peter Walsh and Septimus madness takes a dramatic manifestation. Will Clarissa take any steps for the sake of her first love, or will she stay devoted to the societal pressure and her status as a statesman's wife? What will become of Septimus' madness?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel was developed from Woolf's earlier short story entitled 'Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street'. It takes you to the industrialized society, the hustle and bustle of London to represent the surface, the wrapper of modern society. The internal side is represented by ambiguous dark desires and fears of the characters. The passion and dramatic events in this whole novel take place over the course of a single day and the novel has been compared to poetry for being packed with meaning and intensity. How can a day change your whole life, how can a life built for years, crumble in the blink of an eye? This text is an exciting journey in itself with stylistic symbiosis, making it a true modernist classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eLegend Classics\u003c\/i\u003e series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAround the World in Eighty Days\u003cbr\u003e The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003cbr\u003e The Importance of Being Earnest\u003cbr\u003e Alice\u0026amp;#x27;s Adventures in Wonderland\u003cbr\u003e The Metamorphosis\u003cbr\u003e The Railway Children\u003cbr\u003e The Hound of the Baskervilles\u003cbr\u003e Frankenstein\u003cbr\u003e Wuthering Heights\u003cbr\u003e Three Men in a Boat\u003cbr\u003e The Time Machine\u003cbr\u003e Little Women\u003cbr\u003e Anne of Green Gables\u003cbr\u003e The Jungle Book\u003cbr\u003e The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories\u003cbr\u003e Dracula\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Study in Scarlet\u003cbr\u003e Leaves of Grass\u003cbr\u003e The Secret Garden\u003cbr\u003e The War of the Worlds\u003cbr\u003e A Christmas Carol\u003cbr\u003e Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\u003cbr\u003e Heart of Darkness\u003cbr\u003e The Scarlet Letter\u003cbr\u003e This Side of Paradise\u003cbr\u003e Oliver Twist\u003cbr\u003e The Picture of Dorian Gray\u003cbr\u003e Treasure Island\u003cbr\u003e The Turn of the Screw\u003cbr\u003e The Adventures of Tom Sawyer\u003cbr\u003e Emma\u003cbr\u003e The Trial\u003cbr\u003e A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe\u003cbr\u003e Grimm Fairy Tales\u003cbr\u003e The Awakening\u003cbr\u003e Mrs Dalloway\u003cbr\u003e Gulliver's Travels\u003cbr\u003e The Castle of Otranto\u003cbr\u003e Silas Marner\u003cbr\u003e Hard Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46861475643550,"sku":"ADS-9781915054944","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781915054944.jpg?v=1779252454","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781915054944","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}