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8 de nov. de 2022 · Orlando a biography. by. Virginia Woolf. Publication date. 1928. Collection. internetarchivebooks. Contributor. Internet Archive.
Baixar ePub. Baixar PDF. Baixar Mobi. Ler Online. Sinopse. Sexto romance da autora, Orlando é publicado em 1928. Marcado pela imortalidade, o protagonista idealizado por Virginia Woolf é um jovem que nasce na Inglaterra da Idade Moderna e durante uma estada na Turquia acorda mulher.
- 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, ...
5 de fev. de 2021 · Orlando. by. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Publication date. 1993. Publisher. [Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Classics. Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.
Através das aventuras e desventuras do personagem, Virgínia Woolf apresenta um panorama das transformações sofridas pela Inglaterra e traça divertidas comparações entre homens e mulheres, que acima de tudo servem para desenhar Orlando como um ser humano, independente do sexo.
Ler online. Orlando: A Biography é um romance influente por Virginia Woolf, publicado pela primeira vez em 11 de outubro de 1928. Um romance semi-biográfico baseado em parte na vida do amante Woolf Vita Sackville-West, é geralmente considerado um dos romances mais acessíveis Woolf.
Orlando, um arremedo de biografia, descreve a vida do personagem homônimo, descendente de uma ancestral família aristocrática inglesa, que, no começo da narrativa, vive no século XVI, é homem e tem 16 anos. Acompanhamos sua vida por cerca de quatro séculos, na maior parte dos quais se mantém com a idade de 30 anos.
