'A fantasy,impossible but delicious...an exuberance of life and wit'The Times Literary SupplementFirst 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
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241436301Number of pages: 240Weight: 179 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 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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