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This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations, critical views, and commentary by writers famous and unknown. Now with additional scholarly commentary by Mark Hussey, professor of English at Pace University, this complete volume illuminates the creation of a celebrated story and the genius of its author.
Includes essays and commentary from:
Michael Cunningham
E. M. Forster
Margo Jefferson
James Wood
Mary Gordon
Elaine Showalter
Daniel Mendelsohn
Sigrid Nunez
Deborah Eisenberg
Elissa Schappell
- Sales Rank: #436640 in Books
- Published on: 2004-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.00" w x 5.25" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
From Booklist
How felicitous a pairing, that of Virginia Woolf--who elevated literature to glorious new heights with her glimmeringly beautiful prose and acute renderings of human consciousness but whose life has become the stuff of myth and speculation--and Francine Prose, a shrewd and thrilling novelist and insightful scholar of the creative process and women's lives. Prose's incisive introduction is worth the price of admission to this well-conceived study of the evolution and impact of Woolf's revolutionary novel, Mrs. Dalloway. Prose neatly characterizes what exactly Woolf achieves in this masterpiece, invaluable commentary that paves the way for Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway's Party, the sequence of seven stories that seeded the novel, and relevant entries from Woolf's diaries. Prose wisely includes the short story "The Garden Party," by Katherine Mansfield, the only writer Woolf envied, and presents a set of suitably eloquent critical essays by the likes of Michael Cunningham, Margo Jefferson, Mary Gordon, James Woods, and Sigrid Nunez. And then there's the jewel in question, Mrs. Dalloway itself, which completes this one-of-a-kind reader. Donna Seaman
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The publication of Mrs. Dalloway in 1925 secured Virginia Woolf's place as a master of the modern literary form, and inspired generations of writers to come. This unique collection includes the complete text of Mrs. Dalloway and Mrs. Dalloway's Party, and also various journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the genesis and writing of her masterpiece. Editor Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations, critical views and commentary by writers famous and unknown, all about Mrs. Dalloway. While Mrs. Dalloway remains Woolf's classic work, the lesser-known companion book, Mrs. Dalloway's Party is a kind of writer's notebook, containing many outtakes from Woolf's initial attempt to write Mrs. Dalloway. This complete volume illuminates the creation of a beloved book and the genius of its author.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
There she was
By john b
`Mrs Dalloway' is a kind of cultural phenomena.
Everyone that I know has a different take on who she is, what this book is, and what the novel is supposed to stand for. Enter into this fray the authors own opinion about the whole of it and you have an all-out melee of fiction versus fiction.
This book, The Mrs Dalloway Reader, attempts to focus this problem somewhat. In it, not only will you find the novel itself, but you will also find various supplementary materials that help to ease you into what this novel is and what it means to so many different people. From those whose experience began with trying to impress a girl (and the lucky happenstance of finding the book at a Book-Mobile) to those who fought off the strains of absinthe addiction, the short pieces in range from essays to the first `draft' of the novel `Mrs Dalloway's Party'. Include in this assortment such lovingly-crafted emulations as Jane Mansfield's `The Garden Party' and you've got yourself a real winning combination.
But is this a good reason to buy this book? Don't you need more reasons? Of course!
Take this one: I knew absolutely nothing about Virginia Woolf when I purchased this book. She lived about 100 years ago. She wrote many books and I've seen some of her diaries in the hands of female students when I was in high school about ten years ago. She is popular with the intelligent-female group, those who want to be well-read and know the difference between Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Add to this that I am a guy. Now, take all that and combine it, dashing in the fact that this book single-handedly introduced me to who Virginia Woolf is and what she stood for- just through the supplementary material- and you have not only a great novel but a good place to get your foot into the door of this wonderful writer.
Is that still not enough? Okay: supplementary material aside, how is the book? Wonderful. It is a style of writing that I've heard called `Impressionistic' by some learned person. This is true- until you read Virginia Woolf (who is far easier to understand than other stream-of-consciousness writers such as Joyce) you have no idea what great pictures such simple things as words can express. Mrs Dalloway does this too, moving the reader through a simple narrative that is painted with poetical words, bringing to life a novel that is to fiction what Renoir is to painting; only the basic outline is there, amid all the broad strokes, and you must look to find it...but it is amazing when you see it.
LP
Bottom line: If you know nothing about Virginia Woolf and want a good, solid platform from which to start, pick this one. If you know a lot about her and want to explore more, you pick this one too.
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Woolf is not easy, but this book makes her easier
By Peggy Vincent
Francine Prose's Mrs. Dalloway Reader makes the enigmatic and brilliant Virginia Woolf's masterpiece and bit easier for us modern readers. Since the publication of Cunningham's spectacular The Hours and the movie titled the same, Woolf's writing has undergone a renaissance, rising once again on bestseller lists everywhere. But she's STILL difficult, with the loooong sentences, endless paragraphs, the convoluted windings of words and thoughts and phrases and explanations and descriptions and disclaimers with which her writing is rife.
This book is the missing link. It includes the complete text of Mrs. Dalloway and Mrs. Dalloway's Party, plus relevant journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the creation of Mrs. Dalloway. Also included are essays and reviews by other writers, all about Mrs. Dalloway. Taken all together, these snippets function like a lovely roadmap into not only the character of Mrs. Dalloway, but into the mind of her creator.
Top notch.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Serious Readers Steer Clear!
By The Doc
Virginia Woolf's modernist classic "Mrs. Dalloway" has attracted a substantial body of commentary since its publication in 1925. The present volume entitled "The Mrs. Dalloway Reader" contains the full text of the novel itself, and a number of Woolf's short stories including "Mrs Dalloway's Party" which amounts to Woolf's first attempt at Chapter one of the novel it subsequently inspired. The selection of articles which completes the volume is something of a literary mixed bag. While some of the material is from the journals of Woolf herself, and therefore of particular interest and critical merit, other articles and fragments are less directly related to the text.
So, why buy a "reader" in the first place, instead of just the stand-alone novel? Presumably to have the experience of a landmark work of fiction in its own right, as well as to explore the illuminating thoughts of a variety of minds suitably equipped for the task of intelligent criticism. A laudable aspiration of course, but in the present instance, one that is hardly likely to be met.
Not even one of Woolf's high-flying literary contemporaries manages to do her novel justice. E. M. Forster's essay on the early novels of Virginia Woolf may be an attempt to contextualise "Mrs Dalloway" within a proto-Woolfian cadre, but it actually manages to spend much more time on the other novels it discusses than on the actual subject of this volume. The wandering discussion offered by Daniel Mendelsohn in "Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf" suffers from a sustained lack of focus, struggling as it does to explore the relationships between "The Hours", "Mrs. Dalloway", and "A Room of One's Own". That it is interspersed with sundry unilluminating literary and cinematic references further disperses its faltering focus.
But there's more! Michael Cunningham's "First Love" amounts to nothing more than a vacuous and self-indulgent trifle, while Sigrid Nunez, in her ominously titled "On Rereading Mrs. Dalloway" underlines for us the dangers of hyper-critical reflection and over-intellectualisation in the re-reading process. One truly hopes that she will now fulfil her promise of leaving Woolf's fiction alone and concentrating on her non-fiction. This may possibly mean that "Mrs Dalloway" could remain safe from at least one self-important literary iconoclast.
Clearly, the ironically named Francine Prose who edited this misguided volume was hard up for publishable material. Why else would we have to endure Elaine Showalter's tedious "Invigorating Life" which manages - wait for it - not to make a single mention of "Mrs Dalloway", but instead to concern itself entirely with Woolf's "A Room of One's Own"? Shouldn't that one have made it into the "A Room of One's Own Reader", or did that already contain too many misplaced articles on "Mrs Dalloway"?
In the midst of this mindless morass, there are few gems to justify the publication of a "reader" such as this. Certainly, Deborah Eisenberg's "On Mrs. Dalloway" is a largely mature and intelligent discussion, though rather too brief to do itself full justice; and Elissa Schappell manages in "That Sort of Woman" to personalise her ideas on the text, though hers is ultimately a self-centred narrative which, for anyone truly interested in Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway", must fail to satisfy.
I am a little surprised that Harcourt would run the risk of damaging their academic credibility with a volume as unsatisfying as this. A Mrs. Dalloway reader it really aint! Perhaps it might have been less of an exercise in false advertising, if the publishers had taken a leaf out of the Pythons' book and called it "The Not Exactly a Mrs Dalloway Reader but Something Remotely Approaching It", for what we have here is surely a sheep in Woolf's clothing.
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