| Call # |
PR6045.O72 O7 2006 |
| Phys. Description |
lxvii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
A Harvest book |
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Harvest book.
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"Virginia Woolf's exuberant 'biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the 'life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virginia Woolf's own day-to-day existence; it is also Woolf's light-hearted and light-handed teasing out of the assumptions that lie behind the normal conventions for writing about a fictional or historical life. In this novel, Virginia Woolf plays loose and fast: Orlando uncovers a literary and sexual revolution overnight."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Preface: Virginia Woolf -- Chronology -- Introduction -- ORLANDO : A Biography -- Notes to Orlando : a biography -- Suggestions for further reading : Virginia Woolf -- Suggestions for further reading : Orlando: a biography. |
| Subject |
Transsexuals -- Fiction.
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Nobility -- Fiction.
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Sex role -- Fiction.
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England -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction. lcgft
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Fantasy fiction. lcgft
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Fiction. lcgft
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| Alt Author |
DiBattista, Maria, 1947-
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Hussey, Mark, 1956-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Orlando. Annotated ed., 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, ©2006 9780547543161 (OCoLC)770431355 |
| ISBN |
0156031515 |
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9780156031516 |
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