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Orlando : a biography / Virginia Woolf.

by Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

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Hogarth Press, 1928.

Transsexuals -- Fiction.

Nobility -- Fiction.

Sex role -- Fiction.

England -- Fiction.

Penguin classics

9780241371961 (2019 Penguin Classics trade pbk.)

9780141198521 (2011 Penguin Classics hc)

9780141184272 (2000 Penguin Classics trade pbk.)

9780199536597 (2008 Oxford University Press pbk.)

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299 p. ; 21 cm.

2019 Penguin classics trade pbk. edition edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction and notes by Sandra M. Gilbert.

2008 Oxford University Press edition has edited introduction and notes by Rachel Bowlby.

"In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon."--Amazon.com

Historical fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

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