Orlando

Woolf, Virginia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 009998220X ISBN 13 : 9780099982203

Editeur : Vintage Books, 1992

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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

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Introduction by Quentin Bell

Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to Vita Sackville-West, the central character lives as both a man and a woman through four centuries. This definitive edition contains the original Hogarth Press text as overseen by the author, the illustrations which appeared in the first edition in 1928 and a list of textual variants that appeared during her lifetime.