Mrs. Dalloway

xvii, [3], 185 pp. Introduction by Michael Cunningham (author of The Hours), illustrations by Lizzy Stewart. Map of central London in the mid-twenties precedes text. The central character of the novel is the delicate Clarissa Dalloway, a disciplined English gentlewoman who provides the perfect contrast to another of the book's characters, Septimus Warren Smith, an ex-soldier whose world is disintegrating into chaos.