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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 ...
But as well as being a love letter to Vita, Orlando mocks the conventions of biography and history, teases the pretensions of contemporary men of letters, and wryly examines sexual double standards. This new edition discusses Woolf's stylistic aims, the biographical parallels, and the work's literary context, and includes the original illustrations.
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. 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 ...
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
Books. Orlando: A Biography. Virginia Woolf. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1973 - Fiction - 333 pages. "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.
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 ...
