Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway is a novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels. In this Reader you will find: Information about Virginia Woolf life | Sections focusing on background and context | Glossary | Comprehension activities Tags Love | Society London 1923. The First World War has been over for five years, but the effects are still being felt all round the metropolis. A ocialite and politician’s wife prepares for one of her famous parties while somewhere else in the city an old friend contemplates the pain of past and present love, a war veteran struggles with his inner demons, and other characters live out the uncertainties and dramas of post-war English society. All touch each other in some way with their actions, directly or obliquely. Syllabus Verbs Past Simple, Past Continuous, Present Perfect Simple and Continuous, Past Perfect, Simple and Continuous, Future will and going to, Phrasal verbs Modal verbs: Could/could have (past ability), Should/ should have, Will/shall, Would/would have (habitual action/future in the past), Might/might have (future/present/past possibility), Must/must have (obligation/ past deduction), Must not (prohibition), Need not (necessity) Other: Free indirect speech, Like, If clauses (zero, 1-2-3), Had better, Gerund, As if
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