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Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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It is a June day in London in 1923, and the lovely Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Whom will she see? Her friend Peter, back from India, who has never really stopped loving her? What about Sally, with whom Clarissa had her life’s happiest moment?

Meanwhile, the shell-shocked Septimus Smith is struggling with his life on the same London day.

Luminously beautiful, Mrs. Dalloway uses the internal monologues of the characters to tell a story of inter-war England. With this, Virginia Woolf changed the novel forever.

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Public Domain (P)2010 Naxos AudioBooks Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Fiction England Heartfelt Thought-Provoking

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I can't review Mrs. Dalloway.
Everyone has to form their own impression of it, anticipation of an incident or my impression of a character will only detract from the next readers' experience.
Juliette Stevenson reads it beautifully and her voice is entirely appropriate.
There should be a longer pause at the end of the novel, before Audible hopes anything. Otherwise, excellent.

Love it.

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incredible narration by Juliet Stevenson. A joy. feel I could listen to anything read by her.

Brilliant

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struggled with this due to the descriptions which I couldn't keep up with. I tried

too much for me.

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A work of such breathtaking poetry and insight that I can scarcely believe someone actually managed to write it. I will never be able to separate the luminous text from Juliet Stevenson’s excellent narration in my mind, they were the perfect combination.

Just beautiful

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I loved it, I found it easier to listen to than read especially the appraisals of the characters at the party

enjoyed it very much

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l enjoyed it very much, one needs to concentrate though. the excellent reading helps the access

excellent entry level to access Virginia Woolf

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One of the few "grown up" books. Tolstoy without the ego. Like life; Wthout category.

A slow-moving prism.

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If there is ever a book where the language was so rich, so bright, so vivacious, so elegant and powerful that it made you take a deep breath and say out loud, “I am in love with the author”, it is Mrs’ Dalloway.
Such an amazing journey into the minds of people of age in Britain 1923. A journey into memories that make you ask yourself, ‘Do I really know this person?’.
Juliet Stevenson was of course, utterly perfect. In an excellent manner, she executed that aristocratic tone of British upper class society.
This is without a doubt, one of the most innovative, unique and beautifully written novels of all time. To put it simply, “I am in love with Virginia Woolf” RIP

A days journey that is written like a lifetime

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Beautifully narrated. Listener is transported into the world of Clarissa Dalloway and all the thoughts that percolate through her mind on a june day in London of the 1920's. Wonderful listening, all the nuances articulated with aplomb and brings the book to live.

Mrs Dalloway

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What made the experience of listening to Mrs. Dalloway the most enjoyable?

The perfect pairing between Juliet Stevenson's wonderful narration and Virginia Woolf's text.

What other book might you compare Mrs. Dalloway to, and why?

It's quite "stream of conciousness", but I think that means it works well as an audiobook. I'd probably (boringly) compare it to another stream-of-conciousness novel, like James Joyce's "Portrait of the Author as a Young Man", although I vastly prefer Mrs Dalloway. Mrs Dalloway feels more universal, and less self-centered, than Joyce's book.

Have you listened to any of Juliet Stevenson’s other performances? How does this one compare?

No, but if I saw she'd narrated something it would definitely encourage me to buy it.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

The idea of using a version of the first line: "She said she would buy the flowers herself" tickles my fancy. Mostly because it sounds slightly sinister but isn't really, and yet it does hint at the way the novel centres on ordinary things concealing the turbulence of life.

Mesmerising

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