Virginia Woolf's masterpiece; now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith 'One of the most moving; revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham Clarissa Dalloway; elegant and vivacious; is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London; Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends; their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel; in which she perfected the interior monologue; brings past; present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923. Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Showalter