"She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day."

Virginia Woolf’s most famous 'stream of consciousness' novel, Mrs. Dalloway, records the events of one June day in 1923 - the day on which Clarissa Dalloway is hosting a party in her London home. 

It presents a perfect picture of London between the wars, in an England where the class system is still firmly entrenched while carrying throughout an undercurrent of rage at the resulting inequalities. 

“Mrs. Dalloway is the reverse side of a novel of action. It is a chronicle of thought, unforgettably done." (Atlanta Constitution Review, 1925)

015 Mrs Dalloway

001 Mrs Dalloway

A short story for Halloween, by Robin Stevenson. Read by Malk Williams.

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