Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
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Mrs. Dalloway

Author: Virginia Woolf

Narrator: Helen Lloyd

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 07/17/2021

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

‘She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.’Virginia Woolf’s most famous ‘stream of consciousness’ novel, ‘Mrs. Dalloway', records the events of one June day in 1923 - the day on which Clarissa Dalloway is hosting a party in her London home. The novel continues to fascinate and challenge, hinting at homosexuality, mental illness, racial prejudice, infidelity, and unrequited love. It presents a perfect picture of London between the wars, in an England where the class system is still firmly entrenched while carrying throughout an undercurrent of rage at the resulting inequalities.“Mrs. Dalloway is the reverse side of a novel of action. It is a chronicle of thought, unforgettably done".Atlanta Constitution Review 1925“Clarissa’s day, the impressions she gives and receives, the memories and recognitions which stir in her, the events which are initiated remotely and engineered almost to touching distance of the impervious Clarissa, capture in a definitive matrix the drift of thought and feeling in a period, the point of view of a class, and seem almost to indicate the strength and weakness of an entire civilization.”New York Times Review 1925‘Mrs. Dalloway’ is the second Virginia Woolf novel to be released as an audiobook by Raconteurs Audio in association with Spoken Realms, narrated by Helen Lloyd.‘Mrs. Dalloway’ was originally published in May 1925 and is in the public domain.

About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth-century modernist tradition. She was a pioneer in the usage of stream of consciousness narrative device, and since the publication of her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915 she published a steady and remarkable stream of essays, fiction, and literary criticism throughout her life. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf and together they founded Hogarth Press in 1917. Her friendship and relationship with the writer and gardener Vita Sackville West began in 1922 and carried on until she died by suicide in 1941. Among Woolf’s best-known works are Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando.

About Helen Lloyd

Helen Lloyd is a classically trained actor who has a keen ear for accents and loves to bring characters to life. The narrator of books in numerous genres, she delights in new challenges.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maggie on March 27, 2008

Hands down, my favorite book in the entire universe. I have a copy at home, a copy in my apartment, and a copy at work. All are care-worn, dog-eared, highlighted, underlined, creased, and well-loved. A beloved professor once told me that I will appreciate this book at 20 and I will appreciate it for......more

Goodreads review by Grady on June 08, 2010

A Brilliant Writer Negotiates the Works of a Brilliant Writer Francine Prose is one of our more important writers (novels 'Blue Angel', 'After', 'A Changed Man', 'Primitive People'; probing biographies 'Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles'), a writer with a profound respect of the past, for the art of wr......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on August 03, 2011

Reading Mrs. Dalloway has changed my life. Being my first Virginia Woolf novel, I was tentative with it, afraid from what I had heard that it would be dreadful and hard to read. After Mrs. Dalloway, however, I find that there is not enough Virginia Woolf in the world to satisfy my cravings! It has b......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on July 21, 2021

Interesting to read Woolf's diary and the short stories plus thoughts from other writers regarding Mrs. D.......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on April 01, 2019

I have had this book on my shelf for a while. It was finally time to crack it. To be honest, I skipped all the critical essays and reviews, which were interestingly in the front of the reader, because I wanted to get right to the novel. It is a difficult read. It's a monumental read. I skipped back......more


Quotes

“Lloyd's voice is lovely, and her skill as a narrator is clear.” AudioFile