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8 de nov. de 2022 · Orlando a biography. by. Virginia Woolf. Publication date. 1928. Collection. internetarchivebooks. Contributor. Internet Archive.
24 de dez. de 2021 · Orlando’s fathers had ridden in fields of as-phodel, and stony fields, and fields watered by strange rivers, and they had struck many heads of many colours off many shoulders, and brought them back to hang from the rafters. So too would Orlando, he vowed. But since he was sixteen only, and too young to ride with
4 de mar. de 2020 · Orlando : a biography. by. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Publication date. 1964. Publisher. London : Hogarth Press. Collection. marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana; printdisabled.
- Preface.
- Chapter 1.
- Chapter 2.
- Chapter 3.
- Chapter 4.
- Chapter 5.
- Chapter 6.
Many friends have helped me in writing this book. Some are deadand so illustrious that I scarcely dare name them, yet no one canread or write without being perpetually in the debt of Defoe, SirThomas Browne, Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, EmilyBronte, De Quincey, and Walter Pater,--to name the first that cometo mind. Others are alive, and...
He--for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashionof the time did something to disguise it--was in the act of slicingat the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters. It was thecolour of an old football, and more or less the shape of one, savefor the sunken cheeks and a strand or two of coarse, dry hair, likethe hair on a cocoanut. Or...
The biographer is now faced with a difficulty which it is betterperhaps to confess than to gloss over. Up to this point in tellingthe story of Orlando's life, documents, both private andhistorical, have made it possible to fulfil the first duty of abiographer, which is to plod, without looking to right or left, inthe indelible footprints of truth; ...
It is, indeed, highly unfortunate, and much to be regretted thatat this stage of Orlando's career, when he played a most importantpart in the public life of his country, we have least informationto go upon. We know that he discharged his duties toadmiration--witness his Bath and his Dukedom. We know that he had afinger in some of the most delicate ...
With some of the guineas left from the sale of the tenth pearlon her string, Orlando bought herself a complete outfit of suchclothes as women then wore, and it was in the dress of a youngEnglishwoman of rank that she now sat on the deck of the "EnamouredLady". It is a strange fact, but a true one, that up to this momentshe had scarcely given her se...
The great cloud which hung, not only over London, but over thewhole of the British Isles on the first day of the nineteenthcentury stayed, or rather, did not stay, for it was buffeted aboutconstantly by blustering gales, long enough to have extraordinaryconsequences upon those who lived beneath its shadow. A changeseemed to have come over the clima...
Orlando went indoors. It was completely still. It was verysilent. There was the ink pot: there was the pen; there was themanuscript of her poem, broken off in the middle of a tribute toeternity. She had been about to say, when Basket and Bartholomewinterrupted with the tea things, nothing changes. And then, in thespace of three seconds and a half, ...
26 de jan. de 2010 · Orlando : a biography. by. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941; Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973. Publication date. 1963. Publisher. New York : New American Library. Collection.
Orlando: A Biography. Virginia Woolf. Oxford University Press, 2015 - Fiction - 230 pages. 'I feel the need of an escapade after these serious poetic experimental books...I want to kick up my...
3 de jul. de 2006 · Orlando: A Biography. Virginia Woolf. HMH, Jul 3, 2006 - Fiction - 384 pages. An annotated edition of “Woolf’s most intense work,” a fantastical biography that spans from the court of...
