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  • Published: 9 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241436301
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.00
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Orlando




Virginia Woolf's playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for her intimate friend Vita Sackville-West

Orlando has always been an outsider...

His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England amd imperial Turkey to the modern world.

Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando take on the journey - a nobleman, traveller, writer? Man or... woman?

  • Published: 9 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241436301
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.00
Categories:

About the author

Virginia Woolf

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was born in London. A pioneer in the narrative use of stream of consciousness, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. This was followed by literary criticism and essays, most notably A Room of One’s Own, and other acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando.

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Praise for Orlando

A fantasy, impossible but delicious...an exuberance of life and wit

The Time Literary Supplement