Book description
Orlando has always been an outsider...
His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of
his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from
Elizabethan England amd imperial Turkey to the modern world.
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, traveller, writer? Man or... woman?
This edition is based on the original British (Hogarth) edition, and
is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction and notes by Sandra M.
Gilbert. Contains illustrations, explanatory footnotes, an index,
suggestions for further reading of acclaimed criticisms and
references, as well as a discussion of the textual notes and
substantive emendations in the appendix.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is recognized as a major twentieth-century
author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary
history as a feminist and a modernist. Her first novel, The Voyage Out,
appeared in 1915, and she then worked through the transitional Night and
Day (1919) to the highly experimental and impressionistic Jacob's Room
(1922). Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical
fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West, the
extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the family saga of
The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941).
