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Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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About this listen

It is a June day in London in 1923, and the lovely Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Whom will she see? Her friend Peter, back from India, who has never really stopped loving her? What about Sally, with whom Clarissa had her life’s happiest moment?

Meanwhile, the shell-shocked Septimus Smith is struggling with his life on the same London day.

Luminously beautiful, Mrs. Dalloway uses the internal monologues of the characters to tell a story of inter-war England. With this, Virginia Woolf changed the novel forever.

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Public Domain (P)2010 Naxos AudioBooks Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mental Health Awareness Psychological Fiction England Heartfelt Thought-Provoking

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Beautifully narrated. Listener is transported into the world of Clarissa Dalloway and all the thoughts that percolate through her mind on a june day in London of the 1920's. Wonderful listening, all the nuances articulated with aplomb and brings the book to live.

Mrs Dalloway

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This works so well read out loud, at least when the reader is as good as Juliet Stevenson. You get a real feel of a stream, with London almost one of the characters. I loved the way impressions of the most worthy and formal characters change as they remember their childhood.

Wonderful

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Clever plot taking place in single day with a series of intertwined events focused around socialites party. Depth to the writing as expected with Woolf with several layers of meaning within the story. Moving consideration of shell shock and it's potential impact. Juliet Stevenson reads the story very well and sympathetically to Woolfs writing style. I love Woolfs work but had not read this- I enjoyed it very much and will probably read print version as well now.

Clever, modernist writing by Woolf, well read

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What made the experience of listening to Mrs. Dalloway the most enjoyable?

The perfect pairing between Juliet Stevenson's wonderful narration and Virginia Woolf's text.

What other book might you compare Mrs. Dalloway to, and why?

It's quite "stream of conciousness", but I think that means it works well as an audiobook. I'd probably (boringly) compare it to another stream-of-conciousness novel, like James Joyce's "Portrait of the Author as a Young Man", although I vastly prefer Mrs Dalloway. Mrs Dalloway feels more universal, and less self-centered, than Joyce's book.

Have you listened to any of Juliet Stevenson’s other performances? How does this one compare?

No, but if I saw she'd narrated something it would definitely encourage me to buy it.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

The idea of using a version of the first line: "She said she would buy the flowers herself" tickles my fancy. Mostly because it sounds slightly sinister but isn't really, and yet it does hint at the way the novel centres on ordinary things concealing the turbulence of life.

Mesmerising

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Juliet Stevenson narrated the complex language of Virginia Woolf with consummate skill skilfully dealing with the wide range of characters as well as Mrs. Dalloway herself.

Prose poetry

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