Big Ben is striking eleven as Clarissa Dalloway sets out through Westminster on a June morning to buy herself a pair of gloves. As she crosses Piccadilly and enters a Bond Street shop, her thoughts drift through memories of her father, the war, old friends and the passing faces of London.
First printed in The Dial, this brief story is the seed of Mrs Dalloway and a perfect taste of Woolf’s method. Download the free EPUB.