Published in 1925, Mrs Dalloway is considered one of Woolf’s
fi nest novels. It is about a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway,
an upper-class Englishwoman who is preparing for a party she
will host in the evening, and a day in the life of depressed World
War I veteran Septimus Warren Smith. Through their streams of
consciousness, Woolf explores marriage, mental illness, sexuality,
and larger existential questions in a post-war society. Mrs Dalloway
has been adapted extensively across fi lm, radio and the theatre,
and continues to be one of the most widely read novels from the
twentieth century.