Orlando, a Biography: The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition by Woolf, Virginia (9780156031516)

Orlando, a Biography: The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition

by Woolf, Virginia , Hussey, Mark , DiBattista, Maria

Paperback - English

Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, Orlando is one of Woolf's most popular and entertaining works. This new annotated edition will deepen readers' understanding of Woolf's brilliant creation.

Annotated and with an introduction by Maria DiBattista

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0156031515

EAN

9780156031516

Publisher

HARVEST BOOKS

Publication Date

03 Jul 2006

Pages

384

Age Group

14 to 999

Grades

09 to UP

Weight (kg)

0.32

Dimensions (cm)

20.1 x 13.2 x 2.5

About Author

Virginia Woolf was an influential English author best known for her involvement with the Bloomsbury Group, an association of intellectuals and artists including, John Maynard Keynes and E. M. Forster, who are credited with influencing early twentieth-century literature, criticism, and economics. Woolf became a prolific writer in between the two World Wars, and some of her most famous works, including Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, are now among the most prominent English books of the modern period. A life-long sufferer of depression, Woolf was institutionalized numerous times before taki