Orlando
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Orlando
- Writer: Virginia WoolfViews: 2757
- Category: English
- Pages: 202
- Availability: In Stock
- Product Code: STP-2871
- ISBN: 978-969-9903-66-3
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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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| Pages | 202 |
