Classic & Older Gothic

Mrs Dalloway

by Stella McNichol

Virginia Woolf's landmark novel follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a society hostess in post-WWI London, as she prepares for an evening party. Through interior monologue and stream-of-consciousness, the narrative weaves between Clarissa's present errands and her remembered past, while also entering the minds of those she encounters, including the shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Smith, whose story runs parallel to her own.

More Classic & Older Gothic

• The Vile Village — Brett Helquist
• The Plague — Albert Camus
• The Wide Window — Lemony Snicket
• Sophie's World — Paulette Møller
• The Idiot — Frederick Whishaw
• Othello — William Shakespeare
• Death on the Nile — Agatha Christie
• A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams

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