Bibliograph

Orlando, a biography, by Virginia Woolf

Type

Label

Orlando, a biography, by Virginia Woolf

Language

eng

Illustrations

portraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Orlando

Oclc number

7495987

resource.references

Kirkpatrick. A bibliography of Virginia Woolf, A11c

Responsibility statement

by Virginia Woolf

Series statement

A Harvest/HBJ book

Sub title

a biography

Summary

"Virginia Woolf's exuberant 'biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the 'life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virginia Woolf's own day-to-day existence; it is also Woolf's light-hearted and light-handed teasing out of the assumptions that lie behind the normal conventions for writing about a fictional or historical life. In this novel, Virginia Woolf plays loose and fast: Orlando uncovers a literary and sexual revolution overnight."--Jacket

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