A short story by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1923, following Clarissa Dalloway as she walks through London to buy gloves. It captures her thoughts and impressions during a single morning, offering a vivid, lyrical glimpse of post-war London life. A fine introduction to Woolf's stream-of-consciousness style.
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Opening of the book
MRS DALLOWAY IN BOND STREET
BY VIRGINIA WOOLF
THE
DIAL
VOLUME LXXV
July to December, 1923
THE DIAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
MRS DALLOWAY IN BOND STREET
BY VIRGINIA WOOLF
Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself.
Big Ben was striking as she stepped out into the street. It was eleven o'clock and the unused hour was fresh as if issued to children on a beach. But there was something solemn in the deliberate swing of the repeated strokes; something stirring in the murmur of wheels and the shuffle of footsteps.
No doubt they were not all bound on errands of happiness. There is much more to be said about us than that we walk the streets of
Westminster. Big Ben too is nothing but steel rods consumed by rust were it not for the care of H. M.'s Office of Works. Only for Mrs
Dalloway the moment was complete; for Mrs Dalloway June was
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