""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness....

"Numa clara manhã de primavera, Clarissa Dalloway resolve sair para comprar flores para a festa que acolherá naquela mesma noite, em sua casa. Enquanto passeia pelas ruas de Londres, são recolhidas imagens, sensações e ideias, entrelaçadas com as personagens que habitam o seu mundo - do marido, Richard Dalloway, à filha, Elizabeth, e a Peter Walsh, amigo de juventude acabado de voltar da Índia - e que com ele se cruzam - como Septimus Warren...

"Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel, in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from a brilliant young Oxford scholar and critic. "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's much-beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf's masterpiece. A pivotal work of literary modernism, its simple plot-centered on an upper-class Londoner preparing...