Orlando

Virginia Woolf, Sandra Gilbert

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Penguin
19 May 2020

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through history first as a man, then as a woman.

At its heart is the figure of Woolf's friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, and Knole, the historic home of the Sackvilles.

Orlando mocks the conventions of biography and history and wryly examines sexual double standards.

By: Virginia Woolf
Introduction by: Sandra Gilbert
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 179g
ISBN: 9780241436301
ISBN 10: 0241436303
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 19 May 2020
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.