Présentation de l'éditeur
Portrays the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Member of Parliament, during a summer's day in London at the end of World War I. She is preparing for a party that evening. Her old lover, Peter, has returned from India. In another part of London, Warren Smith is going mad with shell-shock.
Biographie de l'auteur
Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include
The Voyage Out,
Night and Day and
Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including
Mrs Dalloway,
To the Lighthouse,
Orlando and the experimental
The Waves. Her later novels include
The Years and
Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay
A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.
