How Long to Read Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

How Long Does it Take to Read Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway?

It takes the average reader to read Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway by John Sutherland

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Description

It is hard to find anyone nowadays who will dare venture a bad word on Mrs Dalloway: its status as a pioneer feminist text and a brilliantly experimental work is wholly secure. At the time of its publication, however, opinions were more mixed. It was hard in the mid-1920s to come to terms with what, for many, seemed a vexatiously new-fangled work. The reading public was not yet ready for the challenge of what came to be called “stream of consciousness” narrative, or the inner richness of a novel whose main event, a superficial reading might suggest, is an upper-class Conservative politician’s wife’s purchase of flowers for a summer party. This, recall, in the immediate aftermath of a conflict, the First World War, which had shaken the whole of Europe to its foundations. Before, during, and after writing Mrs Dalloway Woolf teetered on the edge of mental breakdown, and more than once fell into its awful depths. And on the edge of the main plot of Mrs Dalloway, and its heroine’s outwardly serene existence, she places Septimus Smith – a shell-shocked survivor of the Great War who finds peacetime too terrible to continue living in. Mrs Dalloway is a novel which provokes thought about the fraught nature of genius, literary modernism, the ambiguous place of women in English society and literature, the infinite complexities of sexual relationships, and even the worthwhileness of life itself. This book seeks to explore all this and to show that reading Mrs Dalloway can be one of the most rewarding experiences English fiction has to offer.

How long is Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway?

Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway by John Sutherland is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

This makes it 0% the length of the average book. It also has 0% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway aloud.

What Reading Level is Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway?

Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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