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Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic bisexual writer, Vita Sackville-West, ORLANDO is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleon-like historical figure who changes sex and identity at will. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. A wry commentary on gender roles and modes of history, ORLANDO is also, in Woolf's words, a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity and capriciousness.
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Review:
'Together these ten volumes make an attractive and reasonably priced (the volumes vary between £3.99 and £4.99) working edition of Virginia Woolf's best-known writing. One can only hope that their success will prompt World's Classics to add her other essays to the series in due course.'Elisabeth Jay, Westminster College, Oxford, Review of English Studies, Volume XLV, No. 178, May '94
Book Description:
Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0141802073
- ISBN 13 9780141802077
- BindingAudio Cassette
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