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《達洛威夫人》是一部意識流長篇小說，是伍爾芙的代表作之一，更曾被美國時代雜誌評為1923年－2005年百部最佳英文小說之一。
小說描述主角克拉麗莎·達洛維的一天，背景是一戰後的英國倫敦，克拉麗莎籌備了一場派對，除了許多名流雅士外也有一些難得一見的舊友即將重聚，其中包括了年輕時曾熱烈追求她的彼得·沃爾士。而克拉麗莎的思緒不禁飄回從前時光，並思索著她決定嫁給達洛威而非沃爾士的決定是否正確...
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolfˊs fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regentˊs Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death.
The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolfˊs famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.
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