"She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day." On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party and recalls her past. In another corner of London, Septimus Smith suffers from mental trauma and is on the brink of madness. Their days intertwine, and their lives converge as the party approaches its dazzling climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the stream of consciousness, and the novel's lyricism has made her work one of the most popular. The Penguin English Library - collectible general editions of the best novels in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.