Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend an...
Show More
Number of Pages: 336
ISBN: 0141184272
ISBN-13: 9780141184272
Mentions
See All
Sam Burt @wordsburt
·
Jun 19, 2018
- Curated in Must-read Novels About Writers
“Orlando is a playful mock ‘biography’ of a chameleonic historical figure, immortal and ageless, who changes sex and identity on a whim. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf’s own time.”