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Virginia Woolf Orlando, a Biography (Paperback) Virginia Woolf Library
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- Book Title
- Orlando, a Biography : the Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
- Publication Name
- Orlando, a Biography
- Title
- Orlando, a Biography
- Subtitle
- The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 015670160X
- EAN
- 9780156701600
- ISBN
- 9780156701600
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 1973
- Release Date
- 24/10/1973
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 9.7 Oz
- Series
- Virginia Woolf Library
- Publication Year
- 1973
- Features
- Reprint
- Topic
- Classics, Literary, Fantasy / Historical
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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"Come, come I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate sixteen-year-old nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colorful delights of Queen Elizabeth I's court. By the close, three centuries have passed, and he will have transformed into a thirty-six-year-old woman in the year 1928. Orlando's journey is also an internal one--he is an impulsive poet who learns patience in matter of the heart, and a woman who knows what it is to be a man. Virginia Woolf's most unusual creation, Orlando is a fantastical biography as well as a funny, exuberant romp through history that examines the true nature of sexuality.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
015670160x
ISBN-13
9780156701600
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038265167
Product Key Features
Book Title
Orlando, a Biography : the Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Classics, Literary, Fantasy / Historical
Publication Year
1973
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
9.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pz3.W8840r23
Edition Description
Reprint
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In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon., "As a work of political satire and feminist fantasy, Orlando laid the groundwork for today's cultural landscape, in which the boundaries of both gender and literary genre are more porous than ever . . . If published today, Orlando might have been misshelved not as biography but as fantasy or science fiction -- genres in which women writers in recent years have increasingly found the space to challenge the straight-white-male strictures of both realist fiction and reality itself. Orlando's blend of social critique and bold fantasy echoes in the postwar fiction of Ursula Le Guin and Angela Carter, and more recently in the fairy-tale retellings of Helen Oyeyemi and Daniel Mallory Ortberg -- as well as in novels like Melissa Broder's The Pisces." --Vulture, "Orlando is the Virginia Woolf Novel We Need Right Now" --, 'Together these ten volumes make an attractive and reasonably priced (the volumes vary between L3.99 and L4.99) working edition of Virginia Woolf's best-known writing. One can only hope that their success will prompt World's Classics to add her other essays to the series in due course.' Elisabeth Jay, Westminster College, Oxford, Review of English Studies, Volume XLV, No. 178, May '94, "As a work of political satire and feminist fantasy, Orlando laid the groundwork for today's cultural landscape, in which the boundaries of both gender and literary genre are more porous than ever . . . If published today, Orlando might have been misshelved not as biography but as fantasy or science fiction -- genres in which women writers in recent years have increasingly found the space to challenge the straight-white-male strictures of both realist fiction and reality itself. Orlando 's blend of social critique and bold fantasy echoes in the postwar fiction of Ursula Le Guin and Angela Carter, and more recently in the fairy-tale retellings of Helen Oyeyemi and Daniel Mallory Ortberg -- as well as in novels like Melissa Broder's The Pisces." --Vulture, "Orlando is the Virginia Woolf Novel We Need Right Now"
Copyright Date
1928
Lccn
73-005729
Dewey Decimal
823/.912
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
The Virginia Woolf Library
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
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