Orlando: a biography - Couverture souple

Woolf, Virginia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199536597 ISBN 13 : 9780199536597

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199536597
• ISBN 13: 9780199536597
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416