Orlando
A Biography
$26.64
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
6 February 2024
Summary
Virginia Woolf’s fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman, with a new introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.
The long-lived protagonist of Orlando begins as a passionate teenage aristocrat, whose days are spent in rowdy revelry at the colorful Tudor court of Queen Elizabeth and his nights in writing earnest poetry. A favorite of the elderly queen, he falls in love with and is jilted by a wayward Russian princess…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593685389 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593685385 |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 6 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 201mm x 131mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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About The Author
Virginia Woolf
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was born in London. A pioneer in the narrative use of stream of consciousness, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. This was followed by literary criticism and essays, most notably A Room of One’s Own, and other acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando.
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO is a short story author, essayist, and critic best known for her story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, and a memoir, In the Dream House, which won the 2021 Folio Prize. Machado is frequently published in The New Yorker, NPR, Granta, and elsewhere, and she has been a finalist for the Nebula Award and the National Book Award.
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