"Orlando: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)" - "" ("Woolf Virginia")(Paperback)

"A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl A Penguin Vitae Edition First masculine, then feminine, Orlando is a young sixteenth-century nobleman who gallops through the centuries and ends up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. Inspired by Woolf's lover, the aristocrat and poet Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf's own words, a "writer's holiday" that delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness. Penguin Vitae--loosely translated as "Penguin of one's life"--is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of
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