On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway, fashionable, sophisticated, wealthy, and an experienced hostess, sets out to buy flowers for the party she will host that evening. She is preoccupied with thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her inner monologue emerge the people who have touched her life. On the same day, Septimus Warren Smith, a traumatized survivor of World War I, commits suicide, and the casual mention of his death at the party prompts Clarissa to reflect on her own isolation and loneliness. Bold and experimental, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is a milestone of twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better with each reading. This elegant edition from the Macmillan Collectors Library of Virginia Woolf's modernist classic includes a foreword by editor and publisher Anna South. The Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of popular classics, designed to appeal to book lovers. The books in the Macmillan Collector's Library are meant to be loved and cherished.