Orlando
ISBN: 9780241371961
Author : Virginia Woolf
Published: 2019
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Number of pages: 336
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 198×129
Author : Virginia Woolf
Published: 2019
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Number of pages: 336
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 198×129
Description
'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary Supplement
First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf's own words, a 'writer's holiday' which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.
Edited by Brenda Lyons with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert
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