«A fantasy, impossible but delicious...an exuberance of life and wit»

The Times Literary Supplement

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and enchanting novel, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith.

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 and 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?

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A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and enchanting novel, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith.

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 and 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?

A wry commentary on gender and history, Orlando is also, in Woolf's own words, a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity and capriciousness. This clothbound Penguin edition is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction and notes by Sandra M. Gilbert.

'I read this book and believed it was a hallucinogenic, interactive biography of my own life and future'
Tilda Swinton

Medlemsvurdering:
Dette er historien om Orlando, en ung og meget vakker gutt. Han finner nåde hos dronningen, og kommer seg på en eller måte opp og frem i livet takket være sitt uvanlig vakre utseende. Et sted i midten av fortellingen er Orlando plutselig en kvinne. Hele boken er egentlig ganske surrealistisk, men allikevel veldig logisk. Den er utrolig vakkert skrevet, på Virgina Woolfs sedvanlige vis, veldig billedlig og originalt, og boken blir på en måte spennede selv om det ikke skjer så utrolig mye. Jeg simpelthen elsket den, for å være helt ærlig. En vidunderlig bok.

Nicolle

Detaljer

Forlag
Penguin Classics
Innbinding
Innbundet
Språk
Engelsk
Sider
336
ISBN
9780241284643
Utgivelsesår
2016
Format
20 x 14 cm

Om forfatteren

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

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«A fantasy, impossible but delicious...an exuberance of life and wit»

The Times Literary Supplement

Medlemmers vurdering

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Nicolle – 21.01.2005

– Dette er historien om Orlando, en ung og meget vakker gutt. Han finner nåde hos dronningen, og kommer seg på en eller måte opp og frem i livet takket være sitt uvanlig vakre utseende. Et sted i midten av fortellingen er Orlando plutselig en kvinne. Hele boken er egentlig ganske surrealistisk, men allikevel veldig logisk. Den er utrolig vakkert skrevet, på Virgina Woolfs sedvanlige vis, veldig billedlig og originalt, og boken blir på en måte spennede selv om det ikke skjer så utrolig mye. Jeg simpelthen elsket den, for å være helt ærlig. En vidunderlig bok.

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