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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 ...
(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.
31 de jul. de 2012 · In any case, I do consider this novel --or pseudo biography-- to be a masterpiece, a book that, despite being more than a hundred years old, has a lot to say about gender roles and class differences that should resonate with contemporary readers. Addictive, intriguing and undeniably weird, 'Orlando' is one for the ages. Truly memorable.
Orlando; a biography, by Virginia Woolf
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
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
Full Title: Orlando: A Biography; When Written: 1927-1928 Where Written: London, England When Published: 1928 Literary Period: Modernism Genre: Historical Fiction; Experimental Biography Setting: London and Constantinople, spanning from the 16th to the 20th century Climax: October 11, 1928, when Orlando wakes at 10:00 a.m. to “the present ...
