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Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
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"She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day."

Virginia Woolf’s most famous "stream of consciousness" novel, Mrs. Dalloway, records the events of one June day in 1923 - the day on which Clarissa Dalloway is hosting a party in her London home. Mrs. Dalloway continues to fascinate and challenge, hinting at homosexuality, mental illness, racial prejudice, infidelity, and unrequited love. It presents a perfect picture of London between the wars, in an England where the class system is still firmly entrenched while carrying throughout an undercurrent of rage at the resulting inequalities.

Mrs. Dalloway is the reverse side of a novel of action. It is a chronicle of thought, unforgettably done." (Atlanta Constitution Review, 1925)

“Clarissa’s day, the impressions she gives and receives, the memories and recognitions which stir in her, the events which are initiated remotely and engineered almost to touching distance of the impervious Clarissa, capture in a definitive matrix the drift of thought and feeling in a period, the point of view of a class, and seem almost to indicate the strength and weakness of an entire civilization.” (New York Times Review, 1925)

Mrs. Dalloway is the second Virginia Woolf novel to be released as an audiobook by Raconteurs Audio in association with Spoken Realms, narrated by Helen Lloyd.

Mrs. Dalloway was originally published in May 1925 and is in the public domain.

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Brilliant narration

Helen Lloyd's narration of this classic is priceless. I imagine that it's not easy to narrate Woolf's books -- it must require planning and keen intelligence. Lloyd has done a marvelous job. I highly recommend her version.

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Terrible

How could this book be on a BBC list of the great works of littérature with Jane Eyre, Vanity Faire and Middlemarch?

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