Orlando

Informationen zum Autor Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. Shortly after her father´s death! she moved to Bloomsbury where! with her sister! the painter Vanessa Bell! Virginia met writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry! forming what later became known as the Bloomsbury Group. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf and together! in 1917! they founded their own printing press. Virginia Woolf met Vita Sackville-West in 1922! for whom the brilliant fantasy of Orlando was written. She died in 1941 after drowning herself in the River Ouse. Klappentext A new edition of Woolf's classic novel about the time-travelling! gender-shifting Orlando. Now part of "The Canons"! Canongate's series of classics! it includes an introduction by Tilda Swinton! who played Orlando in the film adaptation. With an introduction by Tilda Swinton Zusammenfassung With an introduction by Tilda Swinton

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Woolf
• Assisted by: Tilda Swinton (Introduction)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.01.2012
• EAN: 9780857862587
• ISBN: 978-0-85786-258-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 19 mm
• Series: The Canons; Canons
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature