Orlando (Canons) (Roads Publishing) (Bloomsbury Classic)

by Virginia Woolf

Sandra M. Gilbert (Foreword), Brenda Lyons (Editor), and Sandra Gilbert (Introduction)

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Once described as the 'longest and most charming love-letter in literature', the Virginia Woolf's Orlando is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction and notes by Sandra M. Gilbert in Penguin Classics.

Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, immortal and ageless, who changes sex and identity on a whim. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. A wry commentary on gender...

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  • ISBN10 0141184272
  • ISBN13 9780141184272
  • Publish Date 28 September 2000 (first published 1 May 1969)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 15 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 336
  • Language English