Part of the Chiltern Classics range. As Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a party, the appearance of a former suitor stirs thoughts about choices she made long ago. Elsewhere in London, the past weighs heavily on Septimus Warren Smith, a man tormented by his wartime experience. Breaking with traditional narrative conventions, Woolf explores the inner lives of her characters in this landmark of modernist fiction.

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