'He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us,and while the trumpets pealed'Truth! Truth! Truth!'we have no choice left but confess - he was a woman.'A young man in the court of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I,the beautiful Orlando seems to belong everywhere and nowhere. One morning,Orlando awakens transformed - transported into the eighteenth century,and the body of a woman.One of the twentieth century's defining imaginings of queer identity,Orlando is a book of radical possibilities -boy and girl,past and future,nature and magic,life and history,love and literature. One of the most thrilling love letters in all literature,it trespasses thrillingly over the borders of place,time and self.
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781786892454Number of pages: 304Weight: 224 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mmEdition: Main - Canons
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Orlando is the book to put under your pillow and rest uponWonderfully bold and inventiveSexy,provocative and tantalisingA book that refuses all constraints: historical,fantastical,metaphysical,sociological...Orlando is a joyful and passionate declaration of love as life,regardless of gender...Reading Orlando is a pleasure. It is like sitting up all night by the fire with an old friend and a bottle of wine,where the talk is easy,whether of great things or small,and when,as morning comes,you feel better
Virginia Woolf
A titan of twentieth-century literature,a feminist icon and a figurehead of the modernist movement in Britain,Virginia Woolf remains one of the most daringly experimental writers in print. Her works include Mrs Dalloway,To the Lighthouse and Orlando and the pioneering non-fiction collection A Room of One's Own.
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