Orlando
Author: Woolf, Virginia
ISBN: 9780241371961
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West.
Orlando has always been an outsider . . .
His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England amd imperial Turkey to the modern world.
Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando take on the journey - a nobleman, traveller, writer? Man or . . . woman?
ISBN: 9780241371961
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West.
Orlando has always been an outsider . . .
His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England amd imperial Turkey to the modern world.
Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando take on the journey - a nobleman, traveller, writer? Man or . . . woman?
