"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer's men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning--fresh as if issued to children on a beach.
What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air."
What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air."
Bok: Mrs. Dalloway
Författare: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Utgivningsår: 1925
Läs också: Orlando: A Biography (1928)
Om författaren: Virginia Woolf var en av 1900-talets främsta författare och en förgrundsgestalt inom modernismen. Tillsammans med ett antal andra intellektuella (bland annat systern Vanessa) bildade hon Bloomsburygruppen. Var gift men hade flera förhållanden utanför äktenskapet, bland annat med Vita Sackville-West.
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