Virginia Woolf's masterpiece now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie
Bickford-Smith 'One of the most moving revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century'
Michael Cunningham Clarissa Dalloway elegant and vivacious is preparing for a party and
remembering those she once loved. In another part of London Septimus Warren Smith is suffering
from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and
her friends their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia
Woolf's masterly novel in which she perfected the interior monologue brings past present and
future together on one momentous day in June 1923. Edited by Stella McNichol with an
Introduction and Notes by Elaine Showalter