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3.87. 94,547 ratings8,197 reviews. Alternate cover and year edition for isbn10 1853262390 and isbn13 9781853262395. Virginia Woolf's close friend Vita Sackville-West,was the model for the androgynous hero of Orlando.The deliberately fanciful story spans a period from the 16th to the 20th centuries and take the hero,Orlando,from being an ...
Books. Orlando: A Biography. Virginia Woolf. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1973 - England - 333 pages. Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel ...
Virginia Woolf described "Orlando" as "an escapade, half-laughing, half-serious; with great splashes of exaggeration, " but many think Woolf's escapade is one of the most wickedly imaginative and sharply observed considerations of androgyny that this century will see. Orlando is, in fact, a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and ...
26 de jul. de 2018 · Paperback – July 26, 2018. Orlando: A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West, it is generally considered one of Woolf's most accessible novels.
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Exclusively available on IvyPanda®. Virginia Wolf”s Orlando runs through three centuries from 1588 to 1928. The story is a fantasy with Orlando changing gender from male to female. Orlando is a youth born in a noble family imagining that he is beheading the Moors like his ancestors. He walks into the forests to pen down poetry and then ...
7 de jan. de 2024 · Orlando - a biography. LibriVox recording of Orlando by Virginia Woolf. Read in English by Cori Samuel. A fictional biography following the adventures of Orlando: initially a gentleman, later a lady — always a poet — who romps through British history, living an unusually long and full life…. (summary by Cori)
3 de jul. de 2006 · "Undoubtedly Virginia Woolf’s most intense and one of the most singular (novels) of our era."--Jorge Luis Borges Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928.
- Virginia Woolf
