{"product_id":"mrs-dalloway-virginia-woolf-9780241371947","title":"Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf","description":"\u003ch2\u003eClarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eIt's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eIn another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a novel in which she perfects the interior monologue and recapitulates the life cycle in the hours of the day, from first light to the dark of night, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, impression by impression, minute by minute, the feel of life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Michael Cunningham\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/em\u003e by Virginia Woolf\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50303331041595,"sku":"0241371945","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/9780241371947.jpg?v=1776820984","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/mrs-dalloway-virginia-woolf-9780241371947","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}