Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 015670160x Global Overview for this book
Registered by intry of Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on 3/13/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by intry from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Sunday, March 13, 2005
In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon.

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reserved for nina-ivanovna as part of a bookrelay.

Journal Entry 2 by intry at on Friday, May 20, 2005

Released 18 yrs ago (5/20/2005 UTC) at

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Will be mailed later today!

Journal Entry 3 by nina-ivanovna from Ithaca, New York USA on Thursday, June 9, 2005
Received - thank you!

Journal Entry 4 by nina-ivanovna from Ithaca, New York USA on Tuesday, July 5, 2005
Thanks for sharing this with me. It is the most playful Virginia Woolf novel I've read, and like all her work, it pushes the limits of what fiction can do in form and style.

Sending to RoryG as part of a reverse wishlist relay.

Journal Entry 5 by RoryG from Bluemont, Virginia USA on Tuesday, July 12, 2005
The book arrived today. How funny that it came beck to Finland :)

Journal Entry 6 by RoryG at Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Thursday, May 17, 2012

Released 11 yrs ago (5/17/2012 UTC) at Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland

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Reserved for CandyDarling.

Journal Entry 7 by CandyDarling at Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Sunday, May 20, 2012
Thank you, RoryG!

Journal Entry 8 by CandyDarling at Vuosaaren kirjasto in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Sunday, June 4, 2023

Released 10 mos ago (6/3/2023 UTC) at Vuosaaren kirjasto in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland

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I left the book on the book exchange shelf at Vuosaari library.

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