![]() Through the novelâ s rapid transitions between apparently disconnected, but secretly related stories, Woolf was able to suggest the hazards of neatly pigeonholing human character according to social situation or gender" (Parker, 110-11). Dalloway thus initiated Woolfâ s sequence of radical experiments with literary form, embodying a striking combination of fluid sympathy and secret resistance. The technique is almost orchestral, introducing and then interweaving the strains of the different charactersâ thoughts, and finally engineering, through a subtle sequence of readjustments and realignments, a new and delicate harmony between them at the close of the book. Dalloway Woolf breaks decisively with the fictional conventions of the realistic novel. An exceptional example, scarce and desirable in the original dust jacket and in this condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplate to the pastedown. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities. First edition of one of Woolf's best-known novels, one of only 2000 copies. ![]()
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