Orlando: A Biography (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199536597 ISBN 13: 9780199536597

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 2008

Synopsis

Virginia Woolf's exuberant `biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the `life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virginia Woolf's own day-to-day existence; it is also Woolf's light-hearted and light-handed teasing out of the assumptions that lie behind the normal conventions for writing about a fictional or historical life. In this novel, Virginia Woolf plays loose and fast: Orlando uncovers a literary and sexual revolution overnight.

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199536597
• ISBN 13: 9780199536597
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Bowlby Rachel