A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), one of the great twentieth-century
authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major
figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She
published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915, and between
1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest
masterpieces, including Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse
(1927), and The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing
output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and
biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and
the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own (1929).
Jenny Offill (foreword) is the author of the New York Times
bestselling novel Weather; the nationally bestselling novel Dept.
of Speculation, which was one of The New York Times Book Review's
Ten Best Books of 2014; and the novel Last Things, which was a New
York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times
Book Prize for First Fiction. She lives in upstate New York and
teaches at Bard College and in the low residency program at Queens
University of Charlotte.
Elaine Showalter (introduction, notes) is Professor of English,
Emerita, at Princeton University, and the author of many works of
feminist literary criticism.
Stella McNichol (editor) was the author of several critical studies
on Virginia Woolf.
“Woolf’s classic feels even more relevant after a year of lockdown
has rendered many of us so frantically introspective. . . . This
new Penguin Classics edition is superb.” ―Ron Charles, The
Washington Post Book Club
“A revelation . . . A remarkably expansive and an irreducibly
strange book. Nothing you might read in a plot summary prepares you
for the multitudes it contains.” ―Jenny Offill, from the
Foreword
“One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth
century.” ―Michael Cunningham
"At a time when our most ordinary acts―shopping, taking a walk―have
come to seem momentous, a matter of life or death, Clarissa’s
vision of everyday shopping as a high-stakes adventure resonates in
a peculiar way. We are all Mrs. Dalloway now." ―The New Yorker
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