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Orlando

English

By (author): Virginia Woolf

The beautiful Everyman gift edition in hardback.

The Lord Orlando's country seat has 365 rooms. An exquisitely beautiful youth, he is a favourite of the ageing Queen Elizabeth and enjoys all that Court and tavern have to offer. He falls passionately in love with the intriguing Sasha, an androgynous Russian princess, who jilts him. Stricken, he takes up Literature, penning huge quantities of poems and plays, 'all romantic, and all long'. A few decades later a still youthful Orlando is appointed ambassador to Constantinople by Charles II. Here he wakes up one day and finds he has the body of a woman. Different sex, same person, she observes, unphased.
In London, it is the eighteenth century, and she can hobnob with men of genius Pope and Swift, Johnson and Boswell. She has affairs with both women and men, but before long it is the nineteenth century, oppressively gloomy and moral and probably time to find a husband. Fortunately, in a Brontësque moment on a moor, the gender- nonconforming Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, newly back from Cape Horn, gallops past and scoops her up into bliss.

Woolf's most unusual and joyous novel was inspired by her affair with the dashing author and aristocrat, Vita Sackville West.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 380g
  • Dimensions: 132 x 206mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Nov 2023
  • Publisher: Everyman
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781841594149

About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (Author) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She 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 wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces including Mrs Dalloway To the Lighthouse Orlando and The Waves.

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