{"product_id":"orlando-virginia-woolf-9780241371961","title":"Orlando (Virginia Woolf)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf's own words, a 'writer's holiday' which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Brenda Lyons with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eVirginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNight and Day\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJacob's Room\u003c\/i\u003e. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrlando \u003c\/i\u003eand the experimental \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e. Her later novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBetween the Acts\u003c\/i\u003e, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 336 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65807734833501,"sku":"K076509344","price":9.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/7650934400001A.jpg?v=1788486093","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/orlando-virginia-woolf-9780241371961","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}