"Published in 1925, Mrs Dalloway is considered one of Woolf’s finest novels. It is about a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class Englishwoman who is preparing for a party she will host in the evening, and a day in the life of depressed World War I veteran Septimus Warren Smith. Through their streams of consciousness, Woolf explores marriage, mental illness, sexuality, and larger existential questions in a post-war society. Mrs Dalloway has been adapted extensively across film, radio and the theatre, and continues to be one of the most widely read novels from the twentieth century."