书名：Mrs Dalloway 达洛维夫人 
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数950L
作者：Virginia Woolf弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙
出版社名称：William Collins
出版时间：2013
语种： 英文
ISBN：9780007934409
商品尺寸：11.1 x 1.4 x 17.8 cm
包装：简装
页数：224 （以实物为准）

“《达洛维夫人》包含英语写作中美丽、复杂、深刻以及另类的语句，仅凭这一点就有十足的理由去阅读本书。它是二十世纪感人至深、具有里程碑意义的一书杰作。”——迈克尔·坎宁安
伍尔夫是英国现代主义文学中的重要作家之一。在布拉德伯1989年出版的《现代世界：十位伟大的作家》中，伍尔夫是其中唯一的女作家。
自19世纪末期以来，现代社会的阶级关系、社会结构、道德观念、家庭、宗教、政治、妇女地位等方面的重大变化，传统的文学艺术表现形式已无法满足新的需要，因此出现了试验和创新。伍尔夫的特点是漠视传统的小说形式，用象征和意象将片段经历贯穿起来，她的Mrs Dalloway《达洛维夫人》正是其写作特点的集中表现。该作品文笔优美而深刻，是“意识流”小说的奠基之作。
推荐理由：
1.伍尔芙代表作，被时代杂志评为1923-2005百部英文小说之一。
2. 一部关于生命存在意义的终极思考
3.女性主义文学之经典，意识流小说之奠基之作；
4. 柯林斯经典系列，含历史背景及作者介绍（Life & Times），最后附英语词汇注释（Glossary of Classic Literature），生词表采用《柯林斯英语词典》的解释，有助于读者学习理解；
5. 轻型环保纸印刷，小巧轻便，方便随身携带阅读。
Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society – vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the surface of all of Woolf’s characters in Mrs Dalloway.
Centred around one day in June where Clarissa is preparing for and holding a party, her interior monologue mingles with those of the other central characters in a stream of consciousness, entwining, yet never actually overriding the pervading sense of isolation that haunts each person.
One of Virginia Woolf’s most accomplished novels, Mrs Dalloway is widely regarded as one of the most revolutionary works of the 20th century in its style and the themes that it tackles. The sense that Clarissa has married the wrong person, her past love for another female friend and the death of an intended party guest all serve to amplify this stultifying existence.
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Mrs Dalloway《达洛维夫人》的结构框架是女主人公克拉丽莎生活中的一天，这一天的主要活动是达洛维夫人在家中举行的晚会。但是读者面前展现的远不止她一天的所作所为，而是她的一生、她的性格和她和家人、朋友的关系。三十多年前的旧情人彼德的出现勾起了她对自己少女时代的回忆，眼前的事物使她思索自己目前的处境、老年的来临带来的对死亡的恐惧、客人的到来引起的对人际恩怨的回顾。除了克拉丽莎外，作者对彼德和在战争刺激下精神失常而自杀的塞普蒂默斯的内心世界也作了深层次的探索。通过每个人物的回忆、联想、希望、幻灭，作者越过了时空的限制，进出于人物的内心世界。伍尔夫时而停留在某个人物身上，随着人物的意识活动在时间上任意前后跳跃；时而停留在时间的一点上，从一个人物跳跃到另一个人物身上，展示出在同一时间不同空间人物的不同活动和思想。当作者探索一个人物的内心活动时，往往不时用各种方式暗示是谁的内心活动，以免读者在人物自由联想的过程中失去了线索；而当她的笔要从一个人物转到另一个人物身上时，她往往用伦敦大本钟报时的钟声先把读者带回现实之中，然后再转到另一个人的意识中去。在对人物纷繁的意识的表现中，读者能够感觉到一条贯穿其中的主线，那就是作者对当时英国统治阶级的审视。她活灵活现地写出了统治阶级的愚昧，充满了男性至上观念和对王室及帝国的盲目崇拜和效忠。这样的一种社会氛围使一些受害者绝望自杀，另一些寻求安逸，放弃了追求。
One day in the life of a woman preparing to give a party and a groundbreaking work of twentieth-century literary fiction.

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.

弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙（Virginia Woolf），英国女作家，被誉为二十世纪现代主义与女性主义的先锋。两次世界大战期间，她是伦敦文学界的核心人物，同时也是布卢姆茨伯里派（Bloomsbury Group）的成员之一。其知名的小说包括Mrs Dalloway《达洛维夫人》、To the Light house《到灯塔去》以及A Room of One’s Own《一间自己的房间》。
Virginia Woolfwas an English novelist, essayist, short-story writer, publisher, critic and member of the Bloomsbury group, as well as being regarded as both a hugely significant modernist and feminist figure. Her most famous works includeMrs Dalloway,To the Lighthouse andA Room of One’s Own.

Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning — fresh as if issued to children on a beach.
What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen as she then was) solemn, feeling as she did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen; looking at the flowers, at the trees with the smoke winding off them and the rooks rising, falling; standing and looking until Peter Walsh said, “Musing among the vegetables?”— was that it?—“I prefer men to cauliflowers”— was that it?
He must have said it at breakfast one morning when she had gone out on to the terrace —Peter Walsh. He would be back from India one of these days, June or July, she forgot which, for his letters were awfully dull; it was his sayings one remembered; his eyes, his pocket-knife, his smile, his grumpiness and, when millions of things had utterly vanished — how strange it was!— a few sayings like this about cabbages.
She stiffened a little on the kerb, waiting for Durtnall’s van to pass. A charming woman, Scrope Purvis thought her (knowing her as one does know people who live next door to one in Westminster); a touch of the bird about her, of the jay, blue-green, light, vivacious, though she was over fifty, and grown very white since her illness. There she perched, never seeing him, waiting to cross, very upright.
For having lived in Westminster — how many years now? over twenty,— one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Such fools we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink their downfall) do the same; can’t be dealt with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason: they love life. In people’s eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.