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Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf
RM34.00 MYR
Orlando: A Biography
Orlando: A Biography

A gender-fluid historical journey of love.

Orlando could be a good read for someone who is interested in a unique blend of historical fiction and LGBTQ+ themes. Virginia Woolf's exquisite writing style takes the reader on a gender-fluid journey through time, where the protagonist experiences life as both a man and a woman, and challenges gender norms in her/his own way. The book offers a rich exploration of gender and sexuality while also examining the experience of women through different historical eras and societal expectations. Overall, Orlando is a beautifully written and thought-provoking novel that can leave a lasting impact on anyone who reads it.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf
RM34.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9781853262395
Authors: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Date of Publication: 1995-02-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: LGBTQ+, Historical Fantasy, Feminism, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.87
(rated by 110840 readers)

Description

With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's Orlando 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 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.
 

A gender-fluid historical journey of love.

Orlando could be a good read for someone who is interested in a unique blend of historical fiction and LGBTQ+ themes. Virginia Woolf's exquisite writing style takes the reader on a gender-fluid journey through time, where the protagonist experiences life as both a man and a woman, and challenges gender norms in her/his own way. The book offers a rich exploration of gender and sexuality while also examining the experience of women through different historical eras and societal expectations. Overall, Orlando is a beautifully written and thought-provoking novel that can leave a lasting impact on anyone who reads it.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.