She always had the feeling that it was very very dangerous to live even one dayOn a June morning in 1923 Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past Elsewhere in London Septimus Smith is suffering from shellshock and on the brink of madness Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax Here Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novels lyricism and accessibility have made it one of her most popular worksThe Penguin English Library collectable general readers editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War