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

Author: Virginia Woolf

Narrator: Lucy Rayner

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/05/2021


Synopsis

Considered to be one of Virginia Woolf's most popular novels, Mrs. Dalloway follows one high-society woman as she goes about her day planning a splendid party for her acquaintances. As she goes about her day, she ponders on the life she could be living had she not married the reliable Richard Dalloway, and instead sought the enigmatic Peter Walsh. At one point, she muses on the fact that she "had not the option" to be with a close female friend of hers. The novel then takes a turn to follow Septimus Smith, First World War veteran plagued with deferred traumatic stress, through his day in the park. As each journey is laid out, the two individuals lead very different paths. Included in Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since the debut of Time, Mrs. Dalloway, even today, offers timely commentary on issues pertaining to feminism, queerness, mental illness, and existential issues.

About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer who is considered one of the most important modernist twentieth-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

About Lucy Rayner

Lucy Rayner is an award-winning British actress who earned her master's degree in history from The University of Edinburgh and is a graduate of The Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City. The recipient of the Best Supporting Actress award at the Madrid International Film Festival, she has earned two Earphones Awards for her work in audiobook narration.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on June 11, 2012

Experiencing Mrs. Dalloway is like being a piece of luggage on an airport conveyor belt, traversing lazily through a crowd of passengers, over and around and back again, but with the added bonus of being able to read people’s thoughts as they pass; this one checking his flight schedule, that one arg......more

Goodreads review by emma on June 18, 2024

shoutout to virginia woolf for doing the lord's work (writing short books that make you look smart). this is a great interesting beautifully written compelling makes-you-think type book that usually has a gorgeous cover and can be read over the course of one lazy afternoon. no notes! bottom line: thank......more

Goodreads review by Leonard on March 10, 2021

What a lark! What a plunge! There is a famous episode in the first section of Mrs Dalloway where a sky-writing aeroplane flies over London, soaring, spinning and plunging, writing in white letters of steam on a radiant sheet of blue sky. The onlookers on the ground, strolling down Regent’s Park and......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on July 14, 2024

‘Moments like this are buds on the tree of life.’ Our lives are an elaborate and exquisite collage of moments. Each moment beautiful and powerful on their own when reflected upon, turned about and examined to breath in the full nostalgia for each glorious moment gone by, yet it is the compendium of m......more