Includes bibliographical references.

Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, Mrs. Dalloway, was first published in 1925. A work for which she felt she had 'almost too many ideas', it was easily her most ambitious experiment to date, both in terms of form and of psychological representation. The resulting account of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway (and of the tragic suicide of 'double', Septimus Warren Smith), remains, with To the Lighthouse (1927), one of Virginia Woolf's two most widely read novels.

In addition to Morris Beja's introduction and notes, this edition provides a map of 'The London of Mrs. Dalloway' and a frontispiece, reproducing a page from the corrected proofs. Virginia Woolf's 'Introduction' to the 1928 Modern Library Edition of the novel appears as an appendix. The text here is that of the marked, corrected proofs for the first American edition.