Orlando - Hardcover

Woolf, Virginia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849026297 ISBN 13: 9781849026291

Publisher: Benediction Classics, 2010

Synopsis

Orlando is the extraordinary tale of a young man who finds wealth and favour in the court of Elizabeth I of England, but who never grows old. After experiencing love and adventure, a long sleep turns him into a woman, who in her turn faces discrimination and eventually love as the centuries unfold. This ground-breaking novel can be read in may ways: as an extended love-letter to Vita Sackville-West, as a meditation on the different treatment that men and women have experienced over the centuries and as an examination of the way literature itself has changed; 'Orlando' becomes the typical hero or heroine of every age.

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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: Benediction Classics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1849026297
• ISBN 13: 9781849026291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 242