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Orlando: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Paperback – 1 February 2005

by Virginia Woolf (Author)

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Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.

Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.

The Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf series has been curated by Jeanette Winterson and Margaret Reynolds, and the texts used are based on the original Hogarth Press editions published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

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Orlando is the wittiest little book, a pleasure: it makes me laugh every time I read it

Undoubtedly Virginia Woolf's most intense and one of the most singular [novels] of our era

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Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.

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Orlando's journey, from the court of Queen Elizabeth I to modern times will also be an internal one. He is an impulsive poet who learns patience in matters of the heart, and a woman who knows what it is to be a man. Virginia's Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation is a funny, exuberant tale which examines the very nature of sexuality.

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Virginia Woolf (Author)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

Margaret Reynolds (Introducer)
Margaret Reynolds is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster. Her critical edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize. Other books include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion, Victorian Women Poets- An Anthology (with Angela Leighton) and a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts. She is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's long running 'Adventures in Poetry'.

Peter Ackroyd (Introducer)
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London- The Biography, Thames- Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 February 2005
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099478285
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099478287
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 224 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm

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Romur
Fantaisie historique et sociale
Reviewed in France on 10 January 2015
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Orlando est né dans une riche et prestigieuse famille de l’aristocratie anglaise au XVIème siècle. Généreusement doté par la nature, il va connaitre une carrière brillante, même si il la compromet parfois par quelques fantaisies. Au fil des pages, le lecteur se rend compte que cet Orlando est assez hors du commun car les ans semblent le marquer assez peu. Et après une folle soirée à Constantinople, l’ambassadeur du roi d’Angleterre se réveille dans la peau d’une femme… Une nouvelle vie s’ouvre à lui, pardon à elle, pour un siècle ou deux !
C’est un livre brillant, remarquablement écrit, très poétique par endroit (les 10-15 dernières pages notamment), plein d’ironie et de dérision à d’autres, se moquant parfois du lecteur en cassant les codes de la littérature. Cette fantaisie qui s’étale sur près de 400 ans de l’histoire d’Angleterre est un formidable prétexte pour suivre les évolutions de la société, porter un regard croisé sur les deux sexes et les relations qu’ils entretiennent, souligner l’évolution de la place de la femme. Certains passages sont aussi l’occasion d’une réflexion sur la vie, sur l’amour, sur la l’écriture, sur l’identité.
C’est aussi un roman à clés, Virginia Woolf s’étant inspiré et ayant voulu rendre hommage à son amie Vita Sackville-West. Il est donc indispensable de le lire dans une bonne édition avec des commentaires
Lisez Orlando, prenez votre temps pour vous immerger dans le roman et savourer chaque page, c’est un pur délice.

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Mr. Menou Olivier
Dear Virginia
Reviewed in France on 14 November 2017
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You're never quite the same after reading that kind of book. A timeless masterpiece obsessed with time. I'll probably read it again and again and never really get out of the loop.

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amelou
orlando
Reviewed in France on 10 January 2014
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Le livre était en bon état , je recommande ce livre à ceux qui aiment les histoires complexe , et le lire en langue original est plus intéressant !

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Maria Jones
she does it again
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2014
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great read

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Céline Chehadeh
super
Reviewed in France on 28 February 2021
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bcp aimé

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