Mrs. Dalloway [antikvár]

Mrs Dalloway It was life that she loved; and London; this moment in June. The London season was beginning: sports matches; laughing girls who danced all night; rieh old ladies out in their motor cars. And she, a part of it all, loving it all, was going to give her party that night. Clarissa Dalloway is fifty-one years old. She is rieh, has a husband who loves her, and everything she needs. But to live so well, she had to choose between two men, and she chose not to marry Peter Walsh. Did she décidé rightly? She thinks she did. But today perhaps she will know. Because today Peter is Coming back from India. Today she will see him again after many years. How will she feel? And how will Peter feel? He, too, has made décisions. He has chosen the way he lives. Has he chosen well? Perhaps today he, too, will know. It is only one summer's day in London, but it is füll of ail the questions of Clarissa's and Peter's years. Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a writer, and her older sister, Vanessa, was a painter. Her mother died in 1895 and her father in 1904. The Stephen children then moved to Bloomsbury, in London. There, they became the centre of a group of writers and painters, who became famous. Virginia soon began to write for an important newspaper, The Times Literary Supplement, and to write stories. She mar-ried Leonard Woolf in 1912, and her first book was The Voyage Out in 1915. Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928) and The Waves (1931) are her most famous books. Her stories were very différent from those of other writers, and she is one of the most important British writers of the twentieth Century. She was often ill and at times she was very unhappy. In 1941 she killed herseif by throwing herself into the River Ouse, near her home in Sussex, in the south of England.