'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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