Mrs. Dalloway
One June day in London, a party being planned and a war still going off in someone's head.
Clarissa Dalloway spends a June day in 1923 preparing for a party, while across London a shell-shocked veteran named Septimus Smith moves toward a decision, and the two never meet. Woolf holds the whole novel inside a single day and lets consciousness pass between strangers as Big Ben strikes. It is the book where her method stopped being an experiment and became a way of seeing.
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Aysegul Savas
The city is humming with mechanics: automobiles, clocks, airplanes. It bustles with daily activity, from doctor's appointments to mail deliveries. As much as by their pasts, the characters are shaped by all the forces of the city, and the rush of a single day.
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