Mrs. Dalloway
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Mrs. Dalloway
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
|---|---|
| Published | 1925 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Woolf’s 1925 novel of a single June day in post-war London as Clarissa Dalloway prepares a party, run in counterpoint against the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Smith. The plot is almost nothing and the technique is everything — one of the defining demonstrations of free indirect style and of what a novel can do with interior time rather than events. |
Where I heard about it
- University of Austin — assigned in Writing and the English Language on its Fall 2025 reading list (November 2025), beside Hemingway’s short stories and Frederick Douglass’s Narrative — a deliberate range of prose registers, with Woolf as the case for the long, recursive, consciousness-tracking sentence against Hemingway’s refusal of exactly that. Full curriculum: UATX Fall Reading List.
Connections
- UATX Fall Reading List — the curriculum this is assigned in.
- The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway · Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — the other two texts in the same course.
- Literature · Narrative — modernist technique, and what it does to the idea of a plot.
- Writing — the course’s subject, and the reason this is assigned as craft rather than as a novel.
What links here
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