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Sian Thomas reads Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel, set over one day in 1923. Today: Clarissa Dalloway starts preparations for a very special party.
As part of Radio 4's celebration of the birth of modernism a hundred years ago, Sian Thomas reads Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel, set over a single day in 1923.
The lives of a woman preparing for a lavish party and a young man suffering from shell-shock converge on one June day in 1920s London, in Woolf's great novel of time, memory, war and city.
Today: it is the morning of a very special party, and memories, both sweet and painful, are sparked, as Clarissa Dalloway begins her preparations...
Reader: Sian Thomas
Author: Virginia Woolf is one of the most important modernist novelists of the 20th century. She was a central member of the Bloomsbury group, and her novels include To the Lighthouse, The Waves and Orlando.
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett
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