Orlando
introduction by jeanette winterson
$61.51
- Hardcover
248 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2024
Summary
Orlando: A Timeless Transformation
A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman. With a new introduction by Jeanette Winterson.
Woolf’s most lighthearted novel is a playful and exuberant romp through history. As a teenage nobleman, Orlando spends his days in revelry at the colorful Tudor court of Queen Elizabeth and his nights in writin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781101908327 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1101908327 |
| Series: | Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library USA |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 374g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 133mm x 22mm |
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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.
About the Introducer: JEANETTE WINTERSON is an English writer and the author of many novels, including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Sexing the Cherry. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester, and has won a Whitbread Prize, a BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and two Lambda Literary Awards. She is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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