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Orlando

Af: Virginia Woolf Engelsk Hardback

Orlando

Af: Virginia Woolf Engelsk Hardback
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The beautiful Everyman gift edition in hardback.

The Lord Orlando''s country seat has 365 rooms. An exquisitely beautiful youth, he is a favourite of the ageing Queen Elizabeth and enjoys all that Court and tavern have to offer. He falls passionately in love with the intriguing Sasha, an androgynous Russian princess, who jilts him. Stricken, he takes up Literature, penning huge quantities of poems and plays, ''all romantic, and all long''. A few decades later a still youthful Orlando is appointed ambassador to Constantinople by Charles II. Here he wakes up one day and finds he has the body of a woman. "Different sex, same person", she observes, unphased.
In London, it is the eighteenth century, and she can hobnob with "men of genius" Pope and Swift, Johnson and Boswell. She has affairs with both women and men, but before long it is the nineteenth century, oppressively gloomy and moral and probably time to find a husband. Fortunately, in a Brontësque moment on a moor, the gender- nonconforming Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, newly back from Cape Horn, gallops past and scoops her up into bliss.

Woolf''s most unusual and joyous novel was inspired by her affair with the dashing author and aristocrat, Vita Sackville West.

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The beautiful Everyman gift edition in hardback.

The Lord Orlando''s country seat has 365 rooms. An exquisitely beautiful youth, he is a favourite of the ageing Queen Elizabeth and enjoys all that Court and tavern have to offer. He falls passionately in love with the intriguing Sasha, an androgynous Russian princess, who jilts him. Stricken, he takes up Literature, penning huge quantities of poems and plays, ''all romantic, and all long''. A few decades later a still youthful Orlando is appointed ambassador to Constantinople by Charles II. Here he wakes up one day and finds he has the body of a woman. "Different sex, same person", she observes, unphased.
In London, it is the eighteenth century, and she can hobnob with "men of genius" Pope and Swift, Johnson and Boswell. She has affairs with both women and men, but before long it is the nineteenth century, oppressively gloomy and moral and probably time to find a husband. Fortunately, in a Brontësque moment on a moor, the gender- nonconforming Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, newly back from Cape Horn, gallops past and scoops her up into bliss.

Woolf''s most unusual and joyous novel was inspired by her affair with the dashing author and aristocrat, Vita Sackville West.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 248
ISBN-13: 9781841594149
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1841594148
Udg. Dato: 23 nov 2023
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 133mm
Højde: 210mm
Forlag: Everyman
Oplagsdato: 23 nov 2023
Forfatter(e): Virginia Woolf
Forfatter(e) Virginia Woolf


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ISBN-13 9781841594149


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 248


Udgave


Længde 19mm


Bredde 133mm


Højde 210mm


Udg. Dato 23 nov 2023


Oplagsdato 23 nov 2023


Forlag Everyman

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