MRS. DALLOWAY

As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is inv ited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Wal sh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as ...[Read more]