Once described as the 'longest & most charming love-letter in literature' the Virginia Woolf's Orlando is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction & notes by Sandra M Gilbert in Penguin Classics Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West Orlando is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure immortal & ageless who changes sex & identity on a whim First masculine then feminine Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time A wry commentary on gender roles & modes of history Orlando is also in Woolf's own words a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity & capriciousness Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of ' The Bloomsbury Group' This informal collective of artists & writers which included Lytton Strachey & Roger Fry exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel The Waves (1931) She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism & biography including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) & A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay If you enjoyed Orlando you might like Woolf's The Waves also available in Penguin Modern Classics'I read this book & believed it was a hallucinogenic interactive biography of my own life & future' Tilda Swinton ...

Orlando is a young Elizabethan nobleman whose wealth & status afford him an extravagant lifestyle Appointed ambassador in Constantinople he wakes one morning to find he is a woman Unperturbed by such a dramatic transformation & losing none of his flamboyance & ambition the newly female Orlando charges through life & English history so that by the end of this extraordinary biography she is a modern 1920s woman Virginia Woolf's wildly imaginative comic novel was inspired by the life of her lover Vita Sackville West This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Orlando is published with the original illustrations & with an introduction by the academic & novelist Professor Susan Sellers Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure ...

'I feel the need of an escapade after these serious poetic experimental books I want to kick up my heels & be off' Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history first as a man then as a woman; of hisher encounters with queens kings novelists playwrights & poets & of hisher struggle to find fame & immortality not through actions but through the written word At its heart are the life & works of Woolf's friend & lover Vita Sackville-West & Knole the historic home of the Sackvilles But as well as being a love letter to Vita Orlando mocks the conventions of biography & history teases the pretensions of contemporary men of letters & wryly examines sexual double standards This new edition discusses Woolf's stylistic aims the biographical parallels & the work's literary context &

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN DUNMOREAs his tale begins Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court By the close he will have transformed into a modern 36-year-old woman & three centuries will have passed Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Merry M Pawlowski Professor & Chair Department of English California State University Bakersfield Virginia Woolf's Orlando ' The longest & most charming love letter in literature' playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend & lover Vita Sackville-West Spanning three centuries the novel opens as Orlando a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England awaits a visit from the Queen & traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost At the midpoint of the novel Orlando now an ambassador in Costantinople awakes to find that he is a woman & the novel indulges in farce & irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th & 19th centuries As the novel ends in 1928 a year consonant with full suffrage for women Orlando now a wife & mother stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope & promise for women ...

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Defending Orleans together against an impending invasion is the motto of the Orleans Invasion expansion for Orleans Will the 2-5 players be able to equip the city together to fend off the attackers & thus avert the invasion? This is the goal of the cooperative variant of designed by Inka & Markus Brand for Reiner Stockhausen’s game To achieve this goal the city must be prepared properly the players need to fill the granary reinforce the city walls & secure the outer borders In addition each player has to complete a personal objective as indicated by their character card & as if this was not enough the players must survive several new events arsonists are making trouble & rats have already torn into the cheese supply Though sometimes unexpected support may arrive Apart from the eponymous & central cooperative scenario another 5 new game variants are included in the box " Prosperity" is a classic expansion & was also designed by Inka & Markus Brand " The Duel" is a special scenario for 2 players only in which both opponents must complete 4 objectives The player who completes them fastest wins the duel If both players finished on the same round the player who collected the most valuable goods wins Furthermore the big expansion comes with 3 solo scenarios in which the solo player has to complete certain objectives within a limited number of rounds These scenarios differ in playing time & level of difficulty Apart from the proper strategy the solo player must also have that little bit of luck to draw the right followers from the bag at the right time " Orleans Invasion" is a big expansion pack & the result of many players’ wishes everyone can play their preferred variant or explore their favorite scenario For all " Orleans" fans this is an absolute "must-have" that promises many new challenging game hours in the Loire Valley ...

Orleans Trade & Intrigue is the second large expansion for the award-winning game Orleans In addition to new place tiles this expansion contains a new "beneficial deeds" game board a new & challenging set of events & trade contracts The " Intrigue" introduces ways to hinder your opponents& progress or even allow you to take over your opponents& achievements 2–5 Players 90 Min Playing Time Age 12 ...

This Orm Funko POP! Vinyl figure joins the Aquaman range Orm is a new addition to the ever growing Funko POP! Vinyl range Each character stands at around 9cm tall & comes packed in an illustrated window box Collect them all now! ...

An unprecedented homage to modernist architecture from the 1920s up to the present day Ornament Is Crime is a celebration & a thought-provoking reappraisal of modernist architecture The book proposes that modernism need no longer be confined by traditional definitions & can be seen in both the iconic works of the modernist canon by Le Corbusier Mies van der Rohe & Walter Gropius as well as in the work of some of the best contemporary architects of the twenty-first century This book is a visual manifesto & a celebration of the most important architectural movement in modern history ...