Contributor(s): Author: Virginia Woolf Clarissa Dalloway spends the day preparing for the party she is hosting that evening. Virginia Woolf, in lyrical language, describes Clarissa, her memories, day-dreams, regrets and fears for what will be, to masterfully bring together the past, present and future in what has become one of the great novels of the twentieth century. " Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. ... It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours. )