A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and enchanting novel,designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. Orlando has always been an outsider...His longing for passion,adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries,he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man And what form will Orlando take on the journey - a nobleman,traveller,writer Man or... womanA wry commentary on gender and history,Orlando is also,in Woolf's own words,a light-hearted'writer's holiday'which delights in ambiguity and capriciousness. This clothbound Penguin edition is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction and notes by Sandra M. Gilbert.'I read this book and believed it was a hallucinogenic,interactive biography of my own life and future'Tilda Swinton
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241284643Number of pages: 336Weight: 454 gDimensions: 205 x 138 x 31 mm
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A fantasy,impossible but delicious...an exuberance of life and wit
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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