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"'Mrs Dalloway' contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English, and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." —Michael Cunningham "'Mrs. Dalloway' is a book about the kind of love that everyone wants but that no grown-up person seriously expects to give or to get. Peter Walsh loves Clarissa Dalloway simply and absolutely for herself." —Edward Mendelson "At last he resigned himself to giving me the Spanish version of Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway', with the unappealable prediction that I would learn it by heart... I went [home] with the air of someone who had discovered the world." —Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Mrs. Dalloway" chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway — a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and significance — infusing it with the elemental conflict between death and life — Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist. Originally published in 1925, "Mrs. Dalloway" is Woolf's first complete rendering of what she described as the "luminous envelope" of consciousness: a dazzling display of the mind's inside as it plays over the brilliant surface and darker depths of reality.