{"product_id":"orlando-hardcover-1","title":"Orlando - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrea Lawlor\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eSandra M. Gilbert\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003ePaul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant book that teaches you so much about identity and love--all these fundamental questions that we ask ourselves.\" --Emma Corrin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I read this book and believed it was a hallucinogenic, interactive biography of my own life and future.\" --Tilda Swinton \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Vitae Edition \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst masculine, then feminine, Orlando is a young sixteenth-century nobleman who gallops through the centuries, from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to Virginia Woolf's own time. Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando take on the journey--a nobleman, traveler, writer? Man or . . . woman? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, \u003ci\u003e Orlando\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Woolf's most popular and accessible novels, a playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure that is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf's own words, a \"writer's holiday\" that delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition is collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author's intentions, and includes an illuminating introduction and notes by the distinguished scholar and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Madwoman in the Attic \u003c\/i\u003eSandra M. Gibert. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenguin Vitae--loosely translated as \"Penguin of one's life\"--is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/b\u003e (1882-1941), one of the great twentieth-century authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1915, and between 1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, including \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e (1925), \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e (1927), and \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e (1928) and the passionate feminist essay \u003ci\u003eA Room of One\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003es Own\u003c\/i\u003e (1929).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Lawlor\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword) is the author of \u003ci\u003ePaul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, a modern homage to \u003ci\u003eOrlando \u003c\/i\u003ethat was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. The winner of a Whiting Award, they teach writing at Mount Holyoke College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSandra M. Gilbert\u003c\/b\u003e (introduction, notes) is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Davis, and co-author, with Susan Gubar, of the classic work of feminist literary criticism \u003ci\u003eThe Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47260129788153,"sku":"9780143138372","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/G9nmrQMKHG9780143138372.webp?v=1768778508","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/orlando-hardcover-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}