The Mrs. Dalloway Reader

The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

by Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose

On Sale: 11/01/2004

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The Mrs. Dalloway Reader

The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

by Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose

On Sale: 11/01/2004

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This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations, critical views, and commentary by writers famous and unknown. Now with additional scholarly commentary by Mark Hussey, professor of English at Pace University, this complete volume illuminates the creation of a celebrated story and the genius of its author.

Includes essays and commentary from:
Michael Cunningham
E. M. Forster
Margo Jefferson
James Wood
Mary Gordon
Elaine Showalter
Daniel Mendelsohn
Sigrid Nunez
Deborah Eisenberg
Elissa Schappell

Critical Praise

Praise for Mrs. Dalloway
"Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. If the novel before Mrs. Dalloway aspired to immensities of scope and scale, to heroic journeys across vast landscapes, with Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf insisted that it could also locate the enormous within the everyday."
-Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
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Product Details

ISBN: 9780156030151
ISBN 10: 0156030152
Imprint: Mariner Books
On Sale: 11/01/2004
Pages: 400
List Price:41.00 CAD
BISAC1 : FICTION / Literary
BISAC2 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
BISAC3 : LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
BISAC4 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors
BISAC5 : FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)
BISAC6 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
BISAC7 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
BISAC8 : FICTION / Contemporary Women
BISAC9 : FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
BISAC10 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / Italian

Virginia Woolf

Biography

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and Orlando.

Francine Prose

Biography

Francine Prose is the author of twenty-two works of fiction including the highly acclaimed The Vixen; Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.