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Virginia Woolf

Orlando: A Biography

Orlando: A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West, it is generally considered one of Woolf's most accessible novels. The novel has been influential stylistically, and is considered important in literature generally, and particularly in the history of women's writing and gender studies. A film adaptation was released in 1992, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I.
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  • Ulykbek Akhmetshared an impression3 years ago
    👎Give This a Miss
    💩Utter Crap
    💤Borrrriiinnng!
    💧Soppy

    Pardon me, but this is a bullshit. I know that I'm not a writer and a critic neither, however this book was absolutely nonsense to me, hold on, but there is some shock, emotions, intrigues in the nonsense, so this book is worse than a nonsense. With all respect to an author, but it's not worthy of reading. Nowadays there is an standard that called gender equality, and indeed there is, so this book is worthless in perspective of whatever the author thought it would be a issue to vivid gender inequality

  • John Sweeneyshared an impression4 years ago
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile

    No one is better at this than Virginia. But really a poem. Funny and profound. We must be kinder to each other. We have all been here before.Dizzying ride.

  • lindesimpinoshared an impressionlast year
    👍Worth reading

Quotes

  • Marko P.has quoted4 years ago
    By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream.
  • Fernanda Olverahas quoted5 years ago
    He — for there could be no doubt of his sex
  • Bia05has quotedlast month
    Of wall or substance there was none. All was phantom. All was still. All was lit as for the coming of a dead Queen.

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