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Summary Virginia Woolf. "Orlando: A Biography" is a novel written by Virginia Woolf and published in 1928. The book is a work of satire and was inspired by Woolf's partner Vita Sackville-West's riotous family. The novel has received many accolades since being published and is considered a classic works of feminist literature today.
9 de jul. de 2012 · (Book 675 From 1001 Books) - Orlando = Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolf Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf's lover and close friend, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf's most popular novels: a history of English literature.
Orlando: A Biography. Capa dura – 7 junho 2018. Orlando, a novel loosely based on the life of Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf's lover and friend, is one of Woolf's most playful and tantalizing works. This edition provides readers with a fully collated and annotated text. A substantial introduction charts the birth of the novel in the ...
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In Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography, the protagonist, Orlando, a writer who lives from Elizabethan times to the present (1928), encounters various famous figures, and transitions from a man to a woman halfway through the novel. “Woolf dedicated Orlando to Vita Sackville-West, her close friend, lover, and the model for Orlando’s ...
3 de jul. de 2006 · 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 Elizabeth I to the year 1928 (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 ...
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
Virginia Woolf was born in London, England on January 25, 1882. She was the daughter of the prominent literary critic Leslie Stephen. Her early education was obtained at home through her parents and governesses. After death of her father in 1904, her family moved to Bloomsbury, where they formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of ...
