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Classics - St. Charles Public Library
FPPL 2023 - Elizabeth Wetmore's Recs
OBD Patron Picks Summer Reading 2023 - Adult
Women's History Month Fiction 2024
FPPL 2023 - Elizabeth Wetmore's Recs
OBD Patron Picks Summer Reading 2023 - Adult
Women's History Month Fiction 2024
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""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In 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. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness....
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"Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel, in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from a brilliant young Oxford scholar and critic. "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's much-beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf's masterpiece. A pivotal work of literary modernism, its simple plot-centered on an upper-class Londoner preparing...
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"Ten czerwcowy słoneczny dzień 1923 roku Clarissa Dalloway organizuje w swym londyńskim domu kolejne przyjęcie dla śmietanki towarzyskiej. I tego samego dnia Septimus Warren Smith, udręczony weteran wojenny, podejmie najśmielszą w swym życiu decyzję. A chociaż oboje się nie spotkają, tragiczna postać Septimusa zakłóci porządek rutynowego i nudnego przyjęcia w domu Clarissy - wydaje się, że tylko na jedną chwilę... Virginia Woolf...