Orlando
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Description
A unique grotesque novel about traveling through time and space, and about love for books, became one of the most popular works by Virginia Woolf.
Published in 1928, the novel “Orlando” was called the longest and most delightful love letter in the history of literature—because it was dedicated to the writer Vita Sackville-West, a woman Virginia Woolf adored, and who became the prototype of the book’s main character. Orlando is a young aristocrat in England of Elizabethan times: he travels through countries and different centuries, whimsically changing his race and gender. Yet in any guise, in any century, the main thing for Orlando is creativity—and during his travels he/she meets writers from the past. Thus, an unfolding history of English literature appears before the reader—in a capricious, satirical presentation.
This multi-layered novel combines many literary styles and had a huge impact on literature throughout the 20th century. A true masterpiece of modernist literature—now in brilliant reading by Julia Aug…
Published in 1928, the novel “Orlando” was called the longest and most delightful love letter in the history of literature—because it was dedicated to the writer Vita Sackville-West, a woman Virginia Woolf adored, and who became the prototype of the book’s main character. Orlando is a young aristocrat in England of Elizabethan times: he travels through countries and different centuries, whimsically changing his race and gender. Yet in any guise, in any century, the main thing for Orlando is creativity—and during his travels he/she meets writers from the past. Thus, an unfolding history of English literature appears before the reader—in a capricious, satirical presentation.
This multi-layered novel combines many literary styles and had a huge impact on literature throughout the 20th century. A true masterpiece of modernist literature—now in brilliant reading by Julia Aug…
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