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Orlando:a Biography
[Paperback - 2024]
virginia woolf
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Classics
Additional Category: Historical Fiction - Literary Fiction
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9780593685389 | Pages: 208
Shipping Weight: .204 | Dimensions: 5.1 x .6 x 8 inches

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Virginia Woolf's fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman, with a new introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.

The long-lived protagonist of Orlando begins as a passionate teenage aristocrat, whose days are spent in rowdy revelry at the colorful Tudor court of Queen Elizabeth and his nights in writing earnest poetry. A favorite of the elderly queen, he falls in love with and is jilted by a wayward Russian princess. Two kings later, now in his thirties, Orlando is sent to serve as ambassador to Constantinople, where he awakens one day to find himself in the body of a woman. The Lady Orlando takes this circumstance in stride. She returns to England, engages in love affairs with both men and women, consorts with the famous poets of each age, finds happiness with a gender-nonconforming husband, and at last achieves publication of her own epic poem in the year 1928. A playful and exuberant romp through history, Orlando is Woolf’s most lighthearted and unusual novel.  VINTAGE CLASSICS.

About the Author

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novelsMrs. Dalloway(1925),To the Lighthouse(1927), andOrlando(1928), and the book-length essayA Room of One's Own(1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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