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Through Clarissa we meet Septimus Warren Smith, his wife Rezia, and a cast of dozens more, all connected by the “leaden circles” of Big Ben marking the passage of every hour, by the pavements of Bloomsbury that lead everywhere and nowhere. As narrative perspective shifts from character to character—sometimes within a single sentence—readers come to understand the oh-so-permeable barrier between self and other.

Woolf’s sentences are magnificent: sinuous, whirling, impeccably detailed. Words and phrases swoop and soar like swallows. This is a novel to read and cherish, if only to marvel at Woolf’s linguistic acrobatics. At a deeper level, however, the novel demonstrates, through an effortless stream of consciousness, the connections formed in human interaction—whether these interactions are fleeting, or persist through decades. On the surface, it follows Clarissa Dalloway, an Englishwoman in her fifties, minute by minute through the June day on which she is having a party. Dalloway, originally published in 1925, is a glorious, ground-breaking text. Probably Virginia Woolf’s best-known novel, Mrs. „– 3 in the BBC’s 100 Greatest British Novels (2015) „– 50 in the Guardian’s Best 100 Novels in English (2015) Standard EbooksĦ4,323 words (3 hours 54 minutes) with a reading ease of 70.23 (fairly easy) Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.