On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel’s lyricism and accessibility h…

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫 （Virginia Woolf，1882.1.25-1941.3.28） 是一位英国女作家和女权主义者。在两次世界大战期间，伍尔夫是伦敦文学界的一个象征。出生于伦敦的伍尔夫是在家中接受教育的，在结婚以前，她的名字是艾德琳·弗吉尼亚·斯蒂芬（Adeline Virginia Stephen）。在1895年，她的母亲去世之后，她也遭遇了第一次的精神崩溃。后来她在自传《片刻的存在》(Momens of Being)中道出她和姐姐瓦内萨·贝尔（Vanessa Bell）曾遭受其后母儿子（无血缘关系）乔治和杰瑞德·杜克沃斯（Gerald Duckworth）的性侵犯。在1904年她父亲莱斯利·斯蒂芬爵士（Sir Leslie Stephen，编辑和文学批评家）去世之后，她和瓦内萨迁居到了布卢姆斯伯里（BloomsBury）。
她在1905年开…

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结束得猝不及防；人物视角切换真的流畅，完全是sufferings of all the Londoners
Fear no more…
拖了这么久终于听掉了Celia Johnson的版本 其实Annette Bening也读过一版
I gradually realise myself is floating in this floating city. There seem to be too many correct answers to my questions, and these answers are dancing, hanging upside down, and drifting away in many …
I gradually realise myself is floating in this floating city. There seem to be too many correct answers to my questions, and these answers are dancing, hanging upside down, and drifting away in many sunshine-filled afternoons. I, a catcher and a dreamer, slowly approach these answers, grasp one, and hold it tightly so that I can be heavier