Orlando Virginia Woolf.
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- 1853262390 (paperback)
- 9781853262395 (paperback)
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Air University Central Library Islamabad | FIC | 823.912 WOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P9811 |
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823.912 TOL The return of the king : being the third part of the lord of the rings | 823.912 WEL The time machine | 823.912 WOO Mrs dalloway | 823.912 WOO Orlando | 823.912 WOO The waves | 823.91222 LOR Interpretations : | 823.914 AMI Lucky jim / |
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.
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