Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2020 |
Seiten | 240 |
Format | 12,9 x 1,4 x 19,8 cm |
B-format paperback | |
Gewicht | 179 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Penguin Modern Classics |
EAN | 9780241436301 |
Bestell-Nr | 24143630EA |
'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary Supplement
First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf's own words, a 'writer's holiday' which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.
Edited by Brenda Lyons with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert
Rezension:
A fantasy, impossible but delicious...an exuberance of life and wit The Time Literary Supplement