{"product_id":"orlando-w10","title":"Virginia Woolf: Orlando: A Biography (Wordsworth Classics) [1995] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf's \u003cem\u003eOrlando\u003c\/em\u003e '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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woolf, Virginia \u0026 Pawlowski, Merry M. (Professor And Chair \u0026 Carabine, Dr Keith (University Of Kent A","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":49841348706643,"sku":"XG81853262395","price":2.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47182182744403,"sku":"XV81853262395","price":2.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":53181559898451,"sku":"XE81853262395","price":2.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":42052943315129,"sku":"9781853262395","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/woolf-virginia-pawlowski-merry-m-professor-and-chair-carabine-dr-keith-university-of-kent-a-virginia-woolf-orlando-a-biography-wordsworth-classics-1995-paperback-60169160163667.jpg?v=1772791232","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/orlando-w10","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}