![]() ![]() It’s a fitting metaphor for a book whose title character, Clarissa Dalloway, runs errands for her own party, which will bring the stories of its characters - London’s elite muddling past the traumas of World War I - to a dramatic conclusion.Īs the editor and annotator of this new edition, Emre functions much in the same way, leading the reader to a new understanding of “Mrs. ![]() ![]() Dalloway,” Merve Emre describes Virginia Woolf as the hostess of her 1925 modernist classic: flitting from room to room, introducing us to each of her characters in such a way that their consciousness merges with ours into a collective stream. In the introduction to “ The Annotated Mrs. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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