Orlando
Published on 5. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-85786-258-7 (ISBN)
Description
Orlando is destined to live for four hundred years . . .
During the Elizabethan era, the young courtier Orlando becomes a lover to the aging Queen and embarks on an intense affair with the beautiful Russian Princess Sasha. Yet while Orlando can fulfil most of his desires, he never quite seems to fit in.
Then one night, Orlando falls into a deep sleep and awakes transformed, emerging as a woman in eighteenth-century London.
Orlando must now inhabit a very different life, dealing with matters of dress, sex and marriage. But will she arrive in the twentieth century as an individual who has, at last, forged a place in society for herself?
During the Elizabethan era, the young courtier Orlando becomes a lover to the aging Queen and embarks on an intense affair with the beautiful Russian Princess Sasha. Yet while Orlando can fulfil most of his desires, he never quite seems to fit in.
Then one night, Orlando falls into a deep sleep and awakes transformed, emerging as a woman in eighteenth-century London.
Orlando must now inhabit a very different life, dealing with matters of dress, sex and marriage. But will she arrive in the twentieth century as an individual who has, at last, forged a place in society for herself?
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Series
Edition
Main - Canons Imprint
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Canongate Books
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
8 spoof b&w photos scattered in the text.
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
269 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85786-258-7 (9780857862587)
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Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. Shortly after her father's death, she moved to Bloomsbury where, with her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, Virginia met writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, forming what later became known as the Bloomsbury Group. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf and together, in 1917, they founded their own printing press. Virginia Woolf met Vita Sackville-West in 1922, for whom the brilliant fantasy of Orlando was written. She died in 1941 after drowning herself in the River Ouse.