Mrs. Dalloway Michael Acton Smith there lives a cantankerous old

there lives a cantankerous old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace

With incisive clarity and wry wit

the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin

there is no earlier work of prose fiction of equal sophistication in world literature

In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld

Mrs. Dalloway Michael Acton Smith there lives a cantankerous oldVirginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows a single day in London in June 1923 as Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party and recalls relationships from her past. Simultaneously, Septimus Warren Smith, a shell shocked veteran, descends toward madness. Interweaving perspectives reveal how their lives touch, culminating in the party's glittering climax, in a landmark exploration of time, memory, and consciousness.