Mrs Dalloway
Author: Virginia Woolf
Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips.’,,,On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax in Woolf’s great novel of time, memor….Read More
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