Orlando
Book formats
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Paperback 1 812руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- Virginia Woolf, Sandra Gilbert
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Series
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- July 30, 2020
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-43630-1
- GTIN
- 9780241436301
- Weight, g
- 179
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
'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