Orlando
a biography
by Virginia Woolf
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"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."--Jacket.
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Nobility in fiction, Gender identity in fiction, Fiction, England in fiction, Transsexuals, Sex role in fiction, Characters and characteristics in literature, Textual Criticism, Literature, Mujeres, Hombres, Men, Facsimiles, Historia, English Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Women, Transsexuals in fiction, Women in fiction, Sackville-West, V. in fiction, Men in fiction, Nobility, History, England, Characters and characteristics in literature in fiction, Sex role, Ficción, Gender identity, Feminist literature, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, fantasy, historical, England, fiction, LGBTQ fiction, LGBTQ gender identity, LGBTQ novels, Fiction, general, English literature, General Fiction, Roles sexuales, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Rôle selon le sexe, Romans, nouvelles, Orlando (Woolf, Virginia), Criticism and interpretation, Long Now Manual for CivilizationPlaces
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Edition Notes
Cover photos are dated 1992 and are from the film of Orlando written and directed by Sally Potter.
Stiff white paper wrappers printed in black with mult-coloured photographs.
cf. Kirkpatrick, 4th ed., A11j.
Includes index.
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In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman three centuries later.
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