D'Arcy learns to cope with pain and feelings of sorrow while dealing with her father's death--which she wants to be an accident but knows is a suicide--as her mother struggles with torment of her own.

Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway-a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the death of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and significance-infusing it with the elemental conflict between death and life-Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist. Originally...

In Washington State, a widowed doctor suffering from cancer takes a hunting trip, the real purpose of which is to commit suicide, which he will masquerade as an accident. But Dr. Ben Givens' resolve is tested by several events which reaffirm the joy of living--he cheats death by fighting off wolves and helps a girl give birth.

Sarah Ashington's life changes rapidly after her famous actress mother is banished from the London theater in disgrace and later dies. Sarah's father, who has been living in Ceylon and has become desperately ill, returns to England to die. Sarah marries the man who has accompanied her father and returns to Ceylon with him to face a series of strange happenings which threaten her life and her sanity.

Portrays the brutal effects of the poverty and loneliness of slum life.