Orlando (Annotated)

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Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.

Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2006

ISBN-13: 9780547543161

<DIV><B>An annotated edition of &ldquo;Woolf&rsquo;s most intense work,&rdquo; a fantastical biography that spans from the court of Elizabeth I to the year 1928 (Jorge Luis Borges).</B><BR /><BR /> Begun as a &ldquo;joke,&rdquo; <I>Orlando</I> is Virginia Woolf&rsquo;s fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel&rsquo;s end a married woman in the year 1928. From Orlando&rsquo;s early days as a page in the Elizabethan court, through first love, heartbreak, and gender transformation, we follow Woolf&rsquo;s protagonist across centuries, through adventures in Constantinople and friendship with the poet Alexander Pope. All along, Orlando pursues literary success with her long poem, <I>The Oak Tree</I>.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, <I>Orlando</I> is one of Woolf&rsquo;s most enduringly popular and entertaining works. It has inspired a number of adaptions, including a film version starring Tilda Swinton. This new edition, annotated and with an introduction by Maria DiBattista, author of <I>Imagining Virginia Woolf</I>, will deepen readers&rsquo; understanding of Woolf&rsquo;s brilliant creation.</DIV>