Orlando

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
'The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.'
Written for her lover Vita Sackville-West, 'Orlando' is Woolf's playfully subversive take on a biography, here tracing the fantastical life of Orlando. As the novel spans centuries and continents, gender and identity, we follow Orlando's adventures in love - from being a lord in the Elizabethan court to a lady in 1920s London.
First published in 1928, this tale of unrivalled imagination and wit quickly became the most famous work of women's fiction. Sexuality, destiny, independence and desire - all come to the fore in this highly influential novel that heralded a new era in women's writing.

Info autore

Virginia Woolf wurde am 25. Januar 1882 in London geboren und wuchs im großbürgerlichen Milieu des viktorianischen England auf. Der Tod ihrer Mutter 1895 und ihrer älteren Schwester führte zu einer schweren psychischen Krise, deren Schatten sie nie mehr loslassen sollten. 1912 heiratete sie Leonard Woolf. Zusammen gründeten sie 1917 den Verlag The Hogarth Press. Bereits in jungen Jahren bildete sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Bruder den Mittelpunkt der intellektuellen "Bloomsbury Group". Ihr Haus war eines der Zentren der Künstler und Literaten der Bloomsbury Group. Ihre Romane zählen zu den Meilensteinen moderner Literatur. Zugleich war sie eine der einflußreichsten Essayistinnen ihrer Zeit. Aus Furcht, geistig zu umnachten, nahm sie sich am 28. März 1941 nach einem Bombenangriff das Leben.

Riassunto

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

Relazione

'Undoubtedly one of the most singular novels of our era'
Jorge Luis Borges

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Virginia Woolf
• Editore: William Collins
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 08.05.2014
• EAN: 9780007558087
• ISBN: 978-0-00-755808-7
• Pagine: 192
• Dimensioni: 110 mm x 180 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Collins Classics; Collins Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Romance / Action & Adventure, Autobiography: literary, Classical texts, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Autobiography: writers, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Classic fiction: general and literary