{"product_id":"mrs-dalloway-9781035060849","title":"Mrs Dalloway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBold and experimental, Virginia Woolf's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better and better with every reading.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway - fashionable, worldly, wealthy and an accomplished hostess - sets off to buy flowers for the party she will host that evening. She is preoccupied with thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her interior monologue emerge the people who have touched her life. On the same day, Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked survivor of the Great War, commits suicide, and casual mention of his death at the party provokes in Clarissa thoughts of her own isolation and loneliness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eParties and Passions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Picture of Dorian Gray \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e are also available in this Macmillan Collector's Library series of gorgeous paperbacks featuring the greatest parties and the wildest passions in literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Woolf was born in 1882, the youngest daughter of the Victorian writer Sir Leslie Stephen. She was educated at home with her sister, Vanessa, in a literary environment. The death of Woolf's mother in 1895 and her father in 1904 led to the first of the serious nervous breakdowns that would come to feature heavily in her life. Shortly afterwards she moved with her sister and two of her brothers to 46 Gordon Square, which was to be the first meeting place of the circle of writers and artists known as the Bloomsbury Group. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, with whom she would later establish the Hogarth Press, and also published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out\u003c\/i\u003e. It would be followed by eight others, including \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway \u003c\/i\u003e(1925) and \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse \u003c\/i\u003e(1927), which together establish her position as one of the most important modernists of the twentieth century. Woolf took her own life in 1941.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MacMillan Collector's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603097092370,"sku":"9781035060849","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_869e751c-b559-4772-a3c5-d5318bb70e1b.jpg?v=1768304331","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mrs-dalloway-9781035060849","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}