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Orlando (Penguin Vitae)

First masculine, then feminine, Orlando is a young sixteenth-century nobleman who gallops through the centuries, from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to Virginia Woolf’s own time. Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando take on the journey—a nobleman, traveler, writer? Man or... woman? Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this is one of Woolf’s most popular and accessible novels, a playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure that is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf’s own words, a “writer’s holiday” that delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness. Penguin Vitae is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing.

Virginia Woolf

Title : 9780143138372

ISBN : 9780143138372

Publisher : Penguin Classics US

Pages : 336

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Pub date : Sep 24, 2024, 08:00 AM

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Length : 199

Width : 130

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