Author : Virginia Woolf
Format : ebook
Description :
Orlando: A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West, it is generally considered one of Woolf's most accessible novels. The novel has been influential stylistically, and is considered important in literature generally, and particularly in the history of women's writing and gender studies
Summary :
I could not put down Virginia Woolf's Orlando--simply and intoxicatingly brilliant, playful, and poetic! Written with the cheeky humor reminiscent of Chaucer and his The Canterbury Tales and diving into something akin to a Monty Python skit, Woolf's "biography" tells the story of a young, noble, Elizabethan-era man who moves progressively through time about four-hundred years (although only aging about twenty years), straight up until 1928, the year Woolf's novel was published. If this doesn't sound outrageous enough (especially since this is a so-called "biography"), the most surprising element is that Orlando, half-way through the novel, falls asleep and wakes up. . .a woman! Based partially on Woolf's own lesbian affair, Orlando offers commentary on life, love, and literature, as well as the connection between men and women; fashion and consumerism; industrialization; nature and urbanization; family, home, society, and the self, among many other things. Fast-paced, absurd at times, dry, dark in humor, and narrated by an "obnoxious" biographer whose love of words often reads like a cliche romance novel (and worse--this is giving Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto a run for its money at times), one cannot help laughing at and enjoying a work that is complex in meaning yet simple in style. In short--a real treat! And it's hard not to love Orlando, male or female, young or old
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1. Book in English 2013
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