$56.46
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
22 October 2024
Summary
A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl.
“A brilliant book that teaches you so much about identity and love—all these fundamental questions that we ask ourselves.” —Emma Corrin
“I read this book and believed it was a hallucinogenic, interactive biography of my own life a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143138372 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143138375 |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf, Andrea Lawlor, Sandra M. Gilbert, Brenda Lyons |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 398g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 133mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Penguin Vitae |
Critics Review
“I read [Orlando] about once every four or five years. To check my evolution against it. It’s a magic mirror of a book, which I first tucked under my pillow when I was 15 and which, somehow, reliably keeps reflecting back each phase of life at me, leaf by leaf.” —Tilda Swinton in The New York Times Book Review
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was one of the great twentieth-century authors, a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, and a major force in literary feminism and modernism. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915. Between 1925 and 1931, she produced her most celebrated masterpieces, including Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931). Woolf also maintained an prolific output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, with notable works such as the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and the passionate feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929).
Andrea Lawlor (Foreword)
Andrea Lawlor is the author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, a modern homage to Orlando that was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. A winner of a Whiting Award, they teach writing at Mount Holyoke College.
Sandra M. Gilbert (Introduction, Notes)
Sandra M. Gilbert is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Davis. She is the co-author, with Susan Gubar, of the seminal work of feminist literary criticism, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.
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