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Orlando
Virginia Woolf
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Paperback. Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through history first as a man, then as a woman. At its heart is the figure of Woolf's friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, and Knole, the historic home of the Sackvilles. Orlando mocks the conventions of biography and history and wryly examines sexual double standards. Editor(s): Whitworth, Michael H. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 black and white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 206.
'I feel the need of an escapade after these serious poetic experimental books...I want to kick up my heels & be off.' Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history, first as a man, then as a woman; of his/her encounters with queens, kings, novelists, playwrights, and poets, and of his/her struggle to find fame and immortality not through actions, but through the written word. At its heart are the life and works of Woolf's friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, and Knole, the historic home of the Sackvilles. But as well as ... Read more
'I feel the need of an escapade after these serious poetic experimental books...I want to kick up my heels & be off.' Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history, first as a man, then as a woman; of his/her encounters with queens, kings, novelists, playwrights, and poets, and of his/her struggle to find fame and immortality not through actions, but through the written word. At its heart are the life and works of Woolf's friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, and Knole, the historic home of the Sackvilles. But as well as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199650736
SKU
V9780199650736
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About Virginia Woolf
Michael H. Whitworth is the author of Virginia Woolf in the OWC Authors in Context series (2005), and Reading Modernist Poetry (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). He has contributed to the Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (2000, 2/e 2010) and he is the editor of NIght and Day in the Cambridge Edition of Virginia Woolf (forthcoming).
Reviews for Orlando
If you have always wanted to read Woolf but feel intimidated, Orlando is a good place to start. And you can't go wrong with this new Oxford edition.
Shiny New Books, Stefanie Hollmichel
This is a classic of world literature, and folks must at least attempt to read it to learn what is wrong or right with it. ... Read more
Shiny New Books, Stefanie Hollmichel
This is a classic of world literature, and folks must at least attempt to read it to learn what is wrong or right with it. ... Read more