Read Mrs Dalloway in Englishwith every sentence explained

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf was first published in 1925. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked advanced and filed under historical fiction and romance. It runs to about 63,400 words.

One June day in London. One party. A whole life in a single day.

"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." And so Clarissa Dalloway steps out into a bright London morning in 1923, the war just behind her city, a party to give that evening. As she walks, memories rise: a summer long ago, a girl she adored, and Peter Walsh, the man she refused to marry, who has just come back from India.

Across town, Septimus Warren Smith, a young veteran still haunted by the trenches, sits in Regent's Park with his Italian wife, seeing things no one else can see. Their paths never meet, yet their day is woven together hour by hour, while Big Ben counts the time.

Woolf's most-read novel, Mrs Dalloway slips from mind to mind like a camera that can hear thoughts. It inspired Michael Cunningham's The Hours and its Oscar-winning film.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked advanced, with richer vocabulary and longer sentences. If it feels heavy, start with an intermediate English book and come back to it. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.