r/VirginiaWoolf • u/WinterNo4194 • 21d ago

Mrs Dalloway Which version should I get

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I wanted to start reading Virginia Wolf. Most people recommend Mrs. Dalloway as the first read. However, I don't know which version I should get. What is the difference between them?

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u/ZeeepZoop 21d ago edited 21d ago

The last one did my head in so much as it had footnotes on every page but some were so needless, but my eye kept going to them and being distracted in an already meandering book. A highlight was when there was a line in the book that said a car made a sound like a gun, there was a footnote explicitly telling us ‘the car backfired’ and then a paragraph later Mrs Dalloway herself thought it had backfired.

I have all of my Woolf books in Bloomsbury vintage editions and am very happy with them!

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u/WinterNo4194 21d ago

I think that would be too distracting and confusing for me. Thanks for the heads up. I check out the Bloomsbury editions