Orlando - Couverture rigide

Woolf, Virginia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0141198524 ISBN 13 : 9780141198521

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2011

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS

'Undoubtedly Virginia Woolf's most intense and one of the most singular novels of our era' Jorge Luis Borges

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.

The Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf series has been curated by Jeanette Winterson and Margaret Reynolds, and the texts used are based on the original Hogarth Press editions published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

See also: Jacob's Room

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in 1882, Virginia Woolf was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen. She suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. She was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, later known as the Bloomsbury Group. Among them she met Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912, and together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928), The Waves (1931), and Between the Acts (1941). Woolf lived an energetic life, reviewing and writing and dividing her time between London and the Sussex Downs. In 1941, fearing another attack of mental illness, she drowned herself.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141198524
• ISBN 13: 9780141198521
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336