Ulysses
James Joyce · Modernism · Novel
Modernism · Novel
Mrs Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf. A London society woman prepares for a party while a traumatized veteran’s parallel day reveals hidden psychic costs.
- Date
- 1925
- Origin
- England
- Era
- Modernism
- Genre
- Novel
- Difficulty
- Challenging
- Length
- Medium
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Why it matters
A London society woman prepares for a party while a traumatized veteran’s parallel day reveals hidden psychic costs.
This work is included in the collection on the basis of bloom. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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