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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
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Orlando 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:First 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

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

As always, Woolf has stunned me with the magic of her prose here. Telling this isnt important, neither that it is a biography; that it informs us about the affair of Vita and Violet. I guess much has been said about that. When I started reading, I had no idea about the references to people, places, their characters or their lives as are known to be mentioned in this work. In fact, as the novel proceeded from Orlandos gender change for the first time, I had a notion about the invisible layer of

Let it be known that, despite seeming evidence to the contrary in the form of my reviews, I do indeed have a sense of humor. True, it is a small and desiccated thing, unusual in its feathering and tending towards the qualities of the morbid and the sadistic. However, it delights in incongruity to the extreme, and what makes it laugh will win its love forevermore.This book could have simply tickled my fancies to the bone and nothing else and would still have won me over in a complete state of



My mom made me clean my room this weekend. No, not a teenage pain-in-the-ass cleaning of the room, this was THE cleaning of the room. As in, it was finally time to take apart the room Id had in that house since we moved there somewhere around my thirteenth birthday. Look you guys, I get it. Im twenty-four. Thats another one of those Facts of Life that just happens to you, and most people would say I was far past time for this. And you know what? I was doing okay with it. It went slowly, but it

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