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.
Find a print edition
Browse Bookshop.org's current catalog to choose an available edition.
Some purchase links are affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
- Date
- 1925
- Origin
- England
- Era
- Modernism
- Genre
- Novel
- Canon tier
- Essential core
- Difficulty
- Challenging
- Length
- Medium
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Continue exploring
Place Mrs Dalloway in context
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 on the basis of bloom. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
Related works
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · Modernism · Novel / essays
Reading paths featuring Mrs Dalloway
Continue through a deliberately ordered journey that places this work in conversation with others.
Essential 100
A century of works that gives the broadest useful first view of the Western canon. 100 books · Advanced.
Modernism
A route through fractured time, unstable narrators, urban consciousness, and formal experiment. 9 books · Advanced.
Start the Western Canon in 20 Books
A deliberately varied first route through epic, philosophy, scripture, drama, political thought, science, the novel, and modern literature. 20 books · Intermediate.