As his tale begins,Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry,filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close,he will have transformed into a modern,36-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed.
Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge,but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.
With an introduction from Helen Dunmore.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784870850Number of pages: 272Weight: 140 gDimensions: 176 x 126 x 24 mm
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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