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Orlando (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)

Virginia Woolf author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:6th Oct '16

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Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, 36-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed.

Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**


As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS

Orlando is the wittiest little book, a pleasure: it makes me laugh every time I read it
Undoubtedly Virginia Woolf's most intense and one of the most singular [novels] of our era

ISBN: 9781784870850

Dimensions: 175mm x 130mm x 20mm

Weight: 204g

272 pages