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Orlando: Introduction by Jeanette Winterson

Orlando: Introduction by Jeanette Winterson

Woolf, Virginia
Winterson, Jeanette

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics

Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $27.00

ISBN10: 1101908327
ISBN13: 9781101908327
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Jan 2 2024
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.10
Language: Undetermined
A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman. With a new introduction by Jeanette Winterson.

Woolf's most lighthearted novel is a playful and exuberant romp through history. As a teenage nobleman, Orlando spends his days in revelry at the colorful Tudor court of Queen Elizabeth and his nights in writing earnest poetry. A favorite of the elderly queen, he falls in love with and is jilted by a wayward Russian princess. Two kings later, having reached his thirties, Orlando is sent to serve as ambassador to Constantinople, where he awakens one day to find himself in the body of a woman. The Lady Orlando takes this circumstance in stride and returns to England, where she engages in love affairs with both men and women, consorts with the famous poets of each age, finds happiness with an unconventional husband, and at last achieves publication of her own epic poem in the year 1928, the same year that Woolf published her novel.

With its blend of fantastical adventure and satirical wit, Orlando was an immediate popular and critical success, one whose status as a classic has only grown with time.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

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