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''A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit'' The Times Literary Supplement

First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf''s own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf''s own words, a ''writer''s holiday'' which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.

Edited by Brenda Lyons with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert



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    A Paperback / softback by Virginia Woolf, Sandra Gilbert

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 30/07/2020
      ISBN13: 9780241436301, 978-0241436301
      ISBN10: 0241436303
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      Book Synopsis

      ''A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit'' The Times Literary Supplement

      First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf''s own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf''s own words, a ''writer''s holiday'' which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.

      Edited by Brenda Lyons with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert



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      A fantasy, impossible but delicious...an exuberance of life and wit * The Time Literary Supplement *

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