Pros: juggling characters' interiorities with great skill and economy Cons: longer than it needs to be (though not long)
Preface to the preface to the review(!) In its very finite wisdom, epinions disconnected seven reviews of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway from that category and attached the reviews to A Room of One's Own (at the rather ...
Pros: It finally, finally, finally was over!!! Cons: Everything between the front cover and the back cover.
Clarissa Dalloway, an average housewife in turn of the century London, is pondering her party later in the evening, brooding over the disarray of her new hat, wondering if she should have had a lesbian love affair in her youth with her best friend, ...
Pros: Fantastic delving into the souls of the characters. Cons: You really feel lost at the beginning of the book.
I am not sure I am a good enough writer to describe this book to you, but I will try my best anyhow, because it really needs to be done. I just finished reading Virginia Woolf's most popular book, "Mrs. Dalloway". I felt the need to pick it up as a...
Pros: Good character studies Cons: Plot can move slowly in some parts
Virginia Woolf has a unique writing style that has greatly contributed to the success and impact of her well-known classics. She writes in a stream-of-consciousness style. This style defines her novels, all of which would be distinctly different if it...
Pros: Great poetic passages Cons: Difficult to follow
This book can be seen on many levels; unfortunately, I found the lowest level to be extremely shallow. On this level, Mrs. Dalloway depicts a day in the life of a young woman, Clarissa Dalloway, who on this particular day, is organizing a party. It is...
Pros: sympathetic, "three-dimensional" characters Cons: can, admittedly, be slow at times
As soon as I finished Mrs. Dalloway the first time, I picked it back up and read it straight through again because I couldn't believe how good it was: how funny at times, how tragic at others, how vividly and sharply the characters are drawn. All of the...
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