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Series: Penguin Vitae
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A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's pioneering novel about a time-travelling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl. "A brilliant book that teaches you...
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A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's pioneering novel about a time-travelling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl.
"A brilliant book that teaches you so much about identity and love—all these fundamental questions that we ask ourselves." - Emma Corrin
"I read this book and believed it was a hallucinogenic, interactive biography of my own life and future." - Tilda Swinton
A Penguin Vitae Edition
Orlando is a young sixteenth-century nobleman who gallops through the centuries, from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to Virginia Woolf's own time. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando's journey is a search for identity and happiness. Will Orlando find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal partner?
Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is one of Woolf's most popular and accessible novels. 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" that delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.
This edition is collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author's intentions, and includes an illuminating introduction and notes by the distinguished scholar and co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra M. Gibert.
Penguin Vitae—loosely translated as "Penguin of one's life"—is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics. It celebrates a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and non-fiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780143138372
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 24 September 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Illustration: 10 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS AND PHOTOS
Contributors:
- Introduction by Sandra Gilbert
- Edited by Brenda Lyons
- Introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert
- Foreword by Andrea Lawlor
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 27.0mm
Width: 133.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 398g
Pages: 336
About the Author
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), one of the great twentieth-century authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915, and between 1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, including Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own (1929). Andrea Lawlor (foreword) is the author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, a modern homage to Orlando that was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. The winner of a Whiting Award, they teach writing at Mount Holyoke College. Sandra M. Gilbert (introduction, notes) is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Davis, and co-author, with Susan Gubar, of the classic work of feminist literary criticism The Madwoman in the Attic- The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.
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