Orlando : a biography
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Orlando : a biography
（Oxford world's classics）
Oxford University Press, 1998
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Bibliography: p. xlix-li
Includes index
"First published as a World's classics paperback 1992"--T.p. verso
"Reissued as an Oxford world's classics paperback 1998"--T.p. verso
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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. This book is intended for general readers, teachers and students of English literature, and Women's Studies.
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