Reading Mrs Dalloway nowadays is more escapism that it would have been when it was published for sure. It is a snapshot of a sunny summer day in London in the 1920s, though the narrative is dark in places. It is very clever, the way it weaves in and out of perspectives. It says something of different experiences of the same events, and of life in general; people's opinions of and reactions to one another. It also talks about expectations and realities of life, in a realistic and unsensationalised way. Another one where you can see why it's known.
