Orlando
A Biography
$23.19
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2005
Summary
Virginia Woolf’s most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS
As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth’s court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099478287 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099478285 |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2005 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 127mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
You Can Find This Book In
Critics Review
Orlando is the wittiest little book, a pleasure: it makes me laugh every time I read it
Orlando has sometimes been dismissed as a romp. As a less important book than Mrs Dalloway or To the Lighthouse. This is to misread it. It was far ahead of its time in terms of gender politics and gender progress – Jeanette Winterson
A brilliant book that teaches you so much about identity and love – all these fundamental questions that we ask ourselves – Emma Corrin
I read this book and believed it was a hallucinogenic, interactive biography of my own life and future – Tilda Swinton
Orlando is the wittiest little book, a pleasure: it makes me laugh every time I read it
Undoubtedly Virginia Woolf’s most intense and one of the most singular [novels] of our era
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (Author)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London and became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists, and thinkers. In 1912, Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She authored numerous literary works now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.
Peter Ackroyd (Introducer)
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet, and broadcaster. He is the author of acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers such as London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River, and London Under. His biographical works include studies of Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin, and Alfred Hitchcock, and he has also written a multi-volume history of England. He has received the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for his services to literature.
Margaret Reynolds (Introducer)
Margaret Reynolds is a writer, academic, critic, and broadcaster. Her previous books include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion, and Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. She has also authored a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.