This version of the book has been reviewed in English(435), Portuguese(2), Spanish(1), French(3), Norwegian(1) by readers.
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Renata Passos posted a review at 2009-11-25 01:47:52.
(Language: Portuguese)
 
Um sopro de vida.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-11-21 23:36:57.
(Language: English)
Love these miserable books!
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A reader posted a review at 2009-11-18 21:28:51.
(Language: English)
If you want to read a reader-hostile book about depressed people, Mrs. Dalloway is for you. Possibly conceived as a rebuttal to James Joyce’s Ulysses, Mrs. Dalloway is readable in comparison and much shorter in length. However, it uses a “stream of consciousness” style and takes place over the course of one day. It’s a day in which Mrs. Dalloway, a privileged housewife, is hosting a party, and the action follows her from her errand in the morning for the flowers until the guests leave at night. The stream-of-consciousness style makes the book hard to get into. Mrs. Dalloway is not an educated woman and her thought process is more random than most. As her errands take her through the streets of London, the point of view floats from bystander to bystander and it’s not clear whether these are characters or just random people. Whether it’s just on this day or every day, Mrs. Dalloway is thinking about her young adulthood, her close friend Sally and Peter, the man she might have married. She’s distressed because her daughter Elizabeth is in the thrall of her history tutor, Miss Killman. Miss Killman is an unattractive, bitter university graduate who has embraced religion as an outlet for her emotions. Peter, the man from Mrs. Dalloway’s past, has just returned from India and drops in on her during her party preparations. Meanwhile, a shell-shocked (that’s WWI-speak for post-traumatic stress disorder, though this guy is mentally ill) soldier is visiting a specialist in nervous complaints. While Mrs. Dalloway is milling around London running her errands, taking pleasure in the hustle and bustle of London, the soldier and his wife are walking the same streets, and he is overwhelmed and assaulted by it all. Mrs. Dalloway is a “classic”, by which I think they mean “period piece”, not “a book that will always be enjoyed”. It’s an interesting window into a different time, but not worth a read for pleasure.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-11-15 12:31:54.
(Language: French)
Original, bien écrit, personnages attachants... Ca me donne envie de lire d'autres livres de Virgina Woolf !
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Angela posted a review at 2009-11-01 19:16:31.
(Language: English)
Virginia at her best.
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Elysia posted a review at 2009-10-05 08:33:06.
(Language: English)
Didn't like it. Slow, annoying, antagonizing... so really it was a great book because it made me feel so many emotions.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-09-24 05:45:32.
(Language: English)
breathtaking.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-09-21 21:54:09.
(Language: English)
Way better than the movie.
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Debbie posted a review at 2009-09-21 20:30:42.
(Language: English)
I tried to read this a couple of times and couldn't get into it. Finally, with all the hype generated by Michael Cunningham's The Hours, I decided to give it another try. As Carissa Dalloway prepares for a party she is giving that evening, we are swept along in her thoughts. Woolf explores relationships, choices, regrets, and the way in which Clarissa's needs and desires take a backseat to social convention. I know many people love this novel and I don't want to keep anyone from reading it. It is, after all, an important literary contribution. However, I had to force myself to finish it. I was simply overwhelmed by the semicolons. It got to the point where I couldn't follow the narrative because I kept counting the semicolons.
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Paula posted a review at 2009-09-09 16:13:58.
(Language: English)
Virginia Woolf's most accessible book, this luminous short piece of writing is one I have carried with me on many business trips, knowing that any page I opened would give me the pleasure of a beautifully written sentence or paragraph. It will always remain one of my all-time favorites.
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