Woolf combines two seemingly unrelated storylines in this novel: one following Mrs Dalloway, an upper-class woman ready to host a dinner party, and the other her ‘double’, a shell-shocked WWI vet thinking of suicide.
The novella is about seven Blackwoods, out of which four dropped dead from arsenic poisoning several years ago and how that happened remains a mystery.
Whereabouts, as the name implies, is ‘the place where someone or something’ is. We get a sense of someone striving for a feeling of place and identity throughout the novel.
This classic American novel captures the splendour and excess of the Jazz Age while weaving a bittersweet story of love and loss.
This is an Agatha Christie novel written under the pen name Mary Westmacott. It is intricate, humorous, twisting, and thrilling in ways that have nothing to do with crime.
A book way ahead of its time. Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel confronts topics of racism, inequality, and segregation with wit and compassion.