{"product_id":"orlando-paperback-9","title":"Orlando - Paperback","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\u003ePeter Ackroyd\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eMargaret Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colorful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf series has been curated by Jeanette Winterson and Margaret Reynolds, and the texts used are based on the original Hogarth Press editions published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/b\u003e (1882-1941), regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the 20th century, maintained an astonishing output of fiction, literary criticism, essays, and biography. Among her best-known works are \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e (1925), \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e (1929), and \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e (1927). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster. Her critical edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize. Other books include\u003ci\u003e The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion, Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (with Angela Leighton) and a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts. She is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's long running 'Adventures in Poetry'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Ackroyd\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers \u003ci\u003eLondon: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e London Under\u003c\/i\u003e; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eFiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47260472508665,"sku":"9780099478287","price":18.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UgNJXx6ziI9780099478287.webp?v=1768785515","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/orlando-paperback-9","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}