Twelve kinds of taste
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Fiction, Married women, Married women in fiction, Regret
Virginia Woolf’s novel chronicles a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a politician’s wife in 1920s London, as she prepares to host a party that evening. The narrative follows Clarissa’s thoughts (and sometimes those of people she meets) as she goes about her errands, and events in the day remind her of her youth and friendships from the past.
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Contemplative, prestige, character-led and meticulous.
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On Open Library, 78 have read it and 538 want to.
“MRS DALLOWAY said she would buy the flowers herself.”
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ([Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf).) [Comment from Ursula Le Guin on The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice): > You can't write science fiction well if you haven't read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven't read anything else. Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general
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“Is this Virginia Woolf's best work?”
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“Is the slow pace a feature rather than a flaw?”
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“Is the polish hiding a lack of heart?”
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