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Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1925. It is a modernist novel that follows a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a society hostess in post-World War I England. The novel explores themes of time, memory, and the human psyche.
“Which I shan’t ask you to,” she said. “My dear Peter!” she said. But it was delicious to hear her say that--my dear Peter! Indeed, it was all so delicious--the silver, the chairs; all so delicious! Why wouldn’t she ask him to her party? he asked. Now of course, thought Clarissa, he’s enchanting! perfectly enchanting! Now I remember how impossible it was ever to make up my mind--and why did I make up my mind--not to marry him? she wondered, that awful summer? “But it’s so extraordinary that you should have come this morning!” she cried, putting her hands, one on top of another, down on her dress. “Do you remember,” she said, “how the blinds used to flap at Bourton?” “They did,” he said; and he remembered breakfasting alone, very awkwardly, with her father; who had died; and he had not written to Clarissa. But he had never got on well with old Parry, that querulous, weak-kneed old man, Clarissa’s father, Justin Parry. “I often wish I’d got on better with your father,” he said. “But he never liked any one who--our friends,” said Clarissa; and could have bitten her tongue for thus reminding Peter that he had wanted to
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
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