Orlando

Orlando
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Orlando
Wordsworth
Woolf Virginia
1995-09-06
192
126 x 198 mm
paperback
Published: 1995-09-06
Pages: 192
Paperback
Format: 126 x 198 mm
9781853262395
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Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.
Author
Woolf Virginia
Published
1995-09-06
Pages
192
Format
126 x 198 mm
Cover
paperback

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