Celebrate the 100th birthday of a groundbreaking novel with this very special hardback based on the first edition published by the Hogarth Press.

Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to give a party. Over the course of one day, as she readies her house, Clarissa is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.

Virginia Woolf started writing Mrs Dalloway in 1922 as a short story. Its publication in 1925 was met with modest commercial success but the novel went on to become one of the most vital works of literature of the last century.

The text of this centenary edition of Mrs Dalloway is based on the original Hogarth Press edition, published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf on 14 May 1925. The dust jacket features the original cover created by Virginia Woolf 's sister, Vanessa Bell, for the Hogarth Press. Beneath the cover 'deep rust' boards printed in gilt take inspiration from the finish of the first trade edition.

'Sheer magic' Daily Mail

'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

About the Author
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

Reviews
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-

A beautiful piece of writing-Guardian

I think To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway are sheer magic-Daily Express

Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse showed how experimental writing could reshape our sense of ordinary life. Taking unremarkable materials - preparations for a genteel party, a day on a bourgeois family holiday - they trace the flow of associations and ideas that we call "consciousness".-Guardian

A beautiful ode to dignity, memory and survival-Sunday Times



Book Information
ISBN 9781529946321
Author Virginia Woolf
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Vintage Classics
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 404g
Dimensions(mm) 223mm * 145mm * 38mm