ISBN |
9780241520802 (paperback) |
Name |
Williams, Kate author. |
Title |
Mrs Dalloway / Virginia Woolf ; retold by Kate Williams ; illustrations by Guy Harvey ; series editor: Sorrel Pitts. |
Published |
London : Penguin Books, 2021. |
©2021 |
Description |
125 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
Notes |
Includes questions, exercises and project work. |
Summary |
Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway--a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the death of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and significance--infusing it with the elemental conflict between death and life--Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist. Originally published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway is Woolf's first complete rendering of what she described as the "luminous envelope" of consciousness: a dazzling display of the mind's inside as it plays over the brilliant surface and darker depths of reality. This edition uses the text of the original British publication of Mrs. Dalloway, which includes changes Woolf made that never appeared in the first or subsequent American editions. |
Target audience note |
13+ years old. |
Subjects |
English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers |
Reading comprehension -- Problems, exercises, etc |
Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction |
Middle-aged women -- Juvenile fiction |
Suicide victims -- Juvenile fiction |
Married women -- Juvenile fiction |
First loves -- Juvenile fiction |
Parties -- Juvenile fiction |
Regret -- Juvenile fiction |
Young adult fiction |
Readers (Secondary) |
London (England) -- Juvenile fiction |
Genre |
Readers (Publications) |
Psychological fiction |
Domestic fiction |
Easy to read (blue : advanced) |
Other Names |
Adaptation of (work): Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Mrs Dalloway. |
Harvey, Guy, 1955- illustrator. |
Pitts, Sorrel editor. |
Series |
Penguin readers Level 7. |
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