Orlando : a biography
Book |
Hogarth Press,
London :
1928.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at West Lincoln Public Library
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
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About
"In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon."--Amazon.com.
Details
- ISBN: 0701202742
- ISBN: 9780199536597 (2008 Oxford University Press pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780141184272 (2000 Penguin Classics trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780141198521 (2011 Penguin Classics hc)
- Physical Description: 299 p. ; 21 cm.print
- Publisher: London : Hogarth Press, 1928.
- General Note: 2008 Oxford University Press edition has edited introduction and notes by Rachel Bowlby.