Mrs. Dalloway

A woman buys flowers for her party, a shell-shocked veteran sits in Regent's Park, and the same clock strikes over both of them. Woolf worked out here the method she had been looking for-the whole of a life delivered inside a few hours of ordinary errands. She had considered killing Clarissa and gave the death to Septimus instead. Sixty plates of London streets and music halls by Walter Sickert and Edvard Munch, 1850 to 1929, keep the city Woolf's characters walk through on the page beside the story.