Orlando
by Woolf, Virginia
A novel that is as witty and playful as it is probing and profound, Virginia Woolf's Orlando is the fantastic story of a person who lives through five centuries, first as a man and then as a woman. The novel opens with Orlando living as a young man in Elizabethan England. A favorite of the queen, Orlando is given a vast estate by the aging monarch and instructed to never to grow old. He doesn't, and Woolf's novel follows him through the centuries, across the globe, through all sorts of love affairs and intrigues, and through his transformation into a woman.The novel has been famously described by Nigel Nicolson as "the longest and most charming love letter in literature"-and for good reason. Orlando is dedicated to Victoria Sackville-West, who also provided the inspiration for Woolf's androgynous protagonist. Sackville-West was a novelist and poet, and some of her works were published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press. Woolf met her in 1923, and the two had a passionate relationship that lasted for almost two decades. Although Sackville-West's affairs were public and quite scandalous, she was also very much a genteel British aristocrat. For her part, Woolf admired Sackville-West's androgyny, a quality which she famously praises in her work A Room of One's Own. Unique and fantastical, Orlando is Woolf's most light-hearted work, and it is stylistically perhaps her most straightforward. Eschewing stream-of-consciousness and other more experimental narrative techniques that are found in her To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf often uses a largely unadorned style and a third-person narrator, often to effectively parody the male-dominated writing of the nineteenth century. Orlando was published in 1928 during one of most daring and impressive periods of achievement and development in English literary history. Indeed, not since the heyday of English Romanticism in the early nineteenth century, have so many enduring and groundbreaking masterworks been produced. Orlando was published two years after Woolf's masterpiece, To the Lighthouse, and six years after that annus mirabilis, 1922, which saw the publication of both Eliot's The Waste Land and Joyce's Ulysses. Forster's A Passage to India (1924), Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929) and Woolf's own Mrs. Dalloway (1925) are just a few of the remarkable works of a period which also found artists such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Wallace Stevens in the United States and D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats in Great Britain working at the height of their powers.
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Orlando: A Biography
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London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". None. The first edition of Virginia Woolf's ground-breaking feminist work, dedicated to her literary contemporary and lover, Vita Sackville-West. The first edition, first impression. With a frontispiece, and seven full-page monochrome plates. Collated complete.A feminist classic and one… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Hogarth Press, 1928. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 299pp.incl.index; HB orange w/gilt; some rub w/wear on edges&corners; spine sunned; bookplate***; some lt.tan w/clean,tight pgs. DJ homemade dust jacket w/title on spine; design cover w/ wear on edges&corners; chips&tears. Woolf's fictional character who at midpoint in novel awakens… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. First American Trade Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, ix, 333 pages. In Good plus condition, and lacking dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Sunning and foxing to cloth on spine, with fraying to head and tail. Scuffing to front and rear covers. Age-toning to interior pages. Frontispiece detached from… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Signed Limited First Edition. About Fine. Limited first edition. Copy 767 of 861 copies signed by Virginia Woolf. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine decorated in gilt. About Fine with trivial wear to the cloth. A lovely copy. Item Price
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Orlando : a biography / by Virginia Woolf
by Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
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Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz , 1929. Copyright edition. Softcover. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 280 p.; 17 cm. Subjects: Fiction 20th century. Woolf, Virginia. English Fiction 20th century. Genre: Fiction. Item Price
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New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Woolf is considered to be one of the greatest twentieth century novelists and one of the pioneers among modernist writers using stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Following her 1912 marriage to Leonard Woolf, the couple founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, which published much of her work. Arguably one of Woolf's most… Read more about this item Item Price
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Orlando: a biography (Penguin Modern Classics)
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New York: Crosby Gaige,, 1928. The longest love letter in history First edition, first printing, number 660 of 800 copies signed by the author in her distinctive purple ink on the half-title verso, from a limited edition of 861 copies. It precedes by nine days the first trade edition, published by the Hogarth Press on 11 October, and thus… Read more about this item Item Price
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As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate sixteen-year-old nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colorful delights of Queen Elizabeth I's court. By the close, three centuries have passed, and he will have transformed into a thirty-six-year-old woman in the year 1928. Orlando's journey is also an internal one--he is an impulsive poet who learns… Read more about this item Item Price
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