Mrs Dalloway
British novelist, 1882–1941.
Mrs Dalloway is a 1925 novel by Virginia Woolf.
On 8 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- First published
- 1925
- Length
- 176 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Modernist, Psychological
Is Mrs Dalloway worth reading?
8 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph) and The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 9 | See the list |
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian Book Clubs, 2002) | Listed | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 93 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 14 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 3 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of Mrs Dalloway
The edition we link to is the Wordsworth Editions paperback (1996), 176 pages.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions (paperback, 1996)
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN
- 9781853261916
How critics and readers rate Mrs Dalloway
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 64% of the points available on critics' lists, against 15% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Mrs Dalloway
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