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Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West , Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels; Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form.
Nov 8, 2022 · Orlando a biography by Virginia Woolf. Publication date 1928 Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 820980015. Addeddate 2022-11-08 14:02:02 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40760312 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier urn:lcp:orlandobiography0000virg:lcpdf:865b23fd-3850-4995-8f24-ad735c588749 ...
Oct 24, 1973 · As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate sixteen-year-old nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colorful delights of Queen Elizabeth I’s court. By the close, three centuries have passed, and he will have transformed into a thirty-six-year-old woman in the year 1928.
Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history, first as a man, then as a woman; of his/her encounters with queens, kings, novelists,...
Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost.
As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate sixteen-year-old nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colorful delights of Queen Elizabeth I’s court. By the close,...
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 and...
Sep 11, 2020 · Orlando is a fictional biography of a person called Orlando who lives over three hundred years from Queen Elizabeth's reign in the sixteenth century through to King Edwards reign in 1928, the year Virginia Woolf wrote the novel.
Jul 3, 2006 · Begun as a “joke,” Orlando is Virginia Woolf’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’s end a married woman in the year 1928.
- Virginia Woolf
Mar 4, 2020 · Orlando : a biography. by. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Publication date. 1964. Publisher. London : Hogarth Press. Collection. marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana; printdisabled.
