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Original Title:	Orlando, A Biography
ISBN:	0141184272 (ISBN13: 9780141184272)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Nicholas Greene, Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, Sasha, Orlando
Setting:	England Turkey

Orlando

Virginia Woolf

Paperback | Pages: 228 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 52734 Users | 3392 Reviews

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Title	:	Orlando
Author	:	Virginia Woolf
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 228 pages
Published	:	September 28th 2000 by Penguin Classics (first published October 11th 1928)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. LGBT

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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 Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now 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.

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Woolf did not write this book for her readers; she specifically wrote it for her close friend and fellow writer Vita Sackville-West. As such Woolf does things she would not normally do in her writing; it is not at all serious but instead takes on the form of a literary homage, homage to reading and writing. My case in point: For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of

675. Orlando = Orlando: A Biography, Virginia WoolfOrlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf's lover and close friend, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf's most popular novels: a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries,

Having read and not enjoyed or appreciated Virginia Woolfs To The Lighthouse (1927) it was with expectation, due to its literary reputation, although some trepidation, due to my experience with Lighthouse, that I approached the markedly different Orlando A Biography (1928).The premise of the life of Orlando was always going to be a highly promising one beginning as it does with Orlando as a boy at the time of Queen Elizabeth I and following his adventures across different lands, and life of

I finished this book about a week ago, and have been trying ever since to figure out how I'm supposed to review it. I honestly can't think of anything to say except this:Every single emotion I've ever felt and every thought I've ever had, had already been felt and thought and written down by Virginia Woolf decades before I was even born. There is not a single concept or feeling in any of her books that isn't already intimately familiar to me. Reading her books is like having someone look into my

This was my first time reading Orlando. It was also my second time.I like to think that everything happens for a reason - not that I believe it was planned or decided by a powerful creature for me - but because the idea that everything effects what surrounds it sounds about right to me. So I see a purpose in this reading experience that Virginia Woolf provided me and take it as an important lesson to carry with me from now on - and how appropriate that it came just at the beginning of a new and

I like nothing better than when two books I happen to be reading overlap, even if briefly, so I was really pleased when Virginia Woolfs fictional character, Orlando, suddenly mentioned Jonathan Swift, whose Journal to Stella Ive been reading recently. Orlando, who in some sections of Woolfs book uses the title Lady Orlando, has just been receiving a visit from Joseph Addison, Swifts one-time bosom pal and fellow political essayist, when there's an interruption: ..and when Mr Addison has had his

Maybe not the very first but still my very first seriously engaged meeting with Woolf V. is undoubtedly successful. I picked Orlando after dropping - temporarily and until I get a more senseful sense of her works - its Essays. I was charmed by the language and its expressions but, in parallel, I was aware that nothing of the content sticks with me, because whatever she was saying as for arguments, debating facts, extensive monologues, was really foreign language to me, although I was reading it