Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Virginia Woolf · Mrs. Dalloway
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“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”
- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- Work
- Mrs. Dalloway
- Year
- 1925
- Chapter / part
- Opening line
- Length
- 9 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #71865
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Virginia Woolf died in 1941, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1925. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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