
BY VIRGINIA WOOLF
A bright June morning finds a woman in her fifties stepping out into the bustling streets of Westminster, intent on buying flowers for an evening gathering she will host. As the city hums with traffic, brass bands, and the distant chime of Big Ben, she drifts through memories of youth, old acquaintances, and the lingering echo of a war that has reshaped everyone’s lives. Her thoughts flutter between the simple pleasure of arranging a party and the deeper, quieter currents of love, loss, and the passage of time.
The narrative weaves her inner monologue with the fragmented mind of a soldier returning from the front, creating a delicate tapestry of present moments and past recollections. Through a lyrical, stream‑of‑consciousness style, the story captures the pulse of post‑war London, exploring how ordinary lives carry extraordinary inner worlds. Listeners are invited to linger in the subtle beauty of a single day, where every street corner and whispered thought reveals the fragile, ever‑shifting fabric of human experience.
Language
en
Duration
~6 hours (359K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1925.
Credits
Carla Foust, Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Release date
2023-10-13
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1882–1941
A leading voice of literary modernism, this brilliant English writer reshaped the novel with intimate, flowing prose and deep attention to inner life. Her books and essays still feel fresh for the way they explore memory, time, art, and the lives of women.
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