{"product_id":"the-annotated-mrs-dalloway-hardcover","title":"The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Annotated Mrs. Dalloway\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby Virginia Woolf, annotated by Merve Emre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith that simple sentence, Virginia Woolf opens one of the defining novels of literary modernism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet over the course of a single June day in London, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for an evening party. Around her, memories surface, old relationships return, strangers pass through the city, and individual lives overlap without always touching.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe story moves fluidly between characters and consciousness, slipping from the present into memory and back again. Woolf turns an ordinary day into something immense, exploring time, class, love, regret, identity, war, and the private worlds people carry within them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlongside Clarissa is Septimus Smith, a veteran profoundly altered by the First World War. Though the two never meet, their stories become intertwined within the novel’s larger meditation on what it means to be alive, to suffer, and to be seen by others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis annotated edition, edited and introduced by literary scholar Merve Emre, offers an especially rich way to enter Woolf’s world. Alongside the complete novel are extensive annotations, 150 photographs and illustrations, manuscript material, artwork connected to the Bloomsbury Group, and a map tracing Clarissa Dalloway’s route through London.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor readers discovering Woolf for the first time, or returning to her work with curiosity about everything happening beneath the surface.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Note from The Literary Garden\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe paired Virginia Woolf with the Hoya Rope Plant for its extraordinary growth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIts vines curl, twist, double back, and continue onward, much like Woolf’s prose moving through thought, memory, sensation, and time. What first appears tangled reveals its own rhythm when you stay with it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd then, from all that winding growth, come flowers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook Details\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthors:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Virginia Woolf and Merve Emre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 242\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Yes, with 150 photographs and illustrations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e August 31, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 9.3 × 7.4 × 1 in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68640371376409,"sku":"9781631496769","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1019\/9803\/5225\/files\/library-07D6E27A-EF48-46E1-999F-301B306B2FAC-L0-001.png?v=1794470032","url":"https:\/\/thelovefern.com\/products\/the-annotated-mrs-dalloway-hardcover","provider":"The Love Fern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}