Mrs Dalloway

One of the most refined literary works of the 20th century and one of the most famous novels by Virginia Woolf. A masterpiece of the “golden age” of English modernism, first published in 1925. The novel is included in Times’s list of “100 Best Books of the 20th Century” and in the World Library of the Norwegian Book Club.

The book tells the story of one day in the life of the fictional heroine Clarissa Dalloway, a society lady in postwar England. The action in the novel is limited, yet its content is not confined to either plot or even the brilliance of its intricate form—what matters here is not what the characters say or do, but what they think and feel...