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Based on the life of Vita Sackville-West, a close friend of the author, this novel pays tribute to their passionate friendship. At the beginning of the book Orlando is a young, melancholic, poetry-writing nobleman in the Elizabethan Age; it ends in 1928, when Orlando is a modern, poetry-writing... More Based on the life of Vita Sackville-West, a close friend of the author, this novel pays tribute to their passionate friendship. At the beginning of the book Orlando is a young, melancholic, poetry-writing nobleman in the Elizabethan Age; it ends in 1928, when Orlando is a modern, poetry-writing matron of 36. Minimize |
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| Authors | Virginia Woolf | |
| Narrator | Clare Higgins | |
| Fiction Genre | History | |
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| Professional Reviews | New York Times Book Review: "In the closing pages of the novel Mrs. Woolf welds into a compact whole what had seemed to be a series of loosely connected episodes. In them she seems to reach down through the whole superstructure of life and to lay bare a new, or at least a hitherto unperceived, arrangement of those ephemeral flashes of memory of perception that go to make up consciousness....In attempting to describe such subtle and illusive qualities...Mrs. Woolf has faced squarely one of the most puzzling technical and esthetic problems that confront contemporary novelists. The mere fact that she has stated the problem as succinctly as she does in the course of this book is immensely stimulating....It is something of a question whether the tendency of contemporary novelists to become more and more introspective can profitably be carried much further. If it is to continue, however, Mrs. Woolf has pointed out the direction in which it must develop." | |
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| Book Editions | DigitalBBC WW9781405693141 | |
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