Virginia Woolf

Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on October 11, 1928. Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most famous novels. Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been extensively written about by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies. The novel has been adapted several times. In 1981, Ulrike Ottinger adapted it for her film Freak Orlando, with Magdalena Montezuma in the title role. In 1989, director Robert Wilson and writer Darryl Pinckney collaborated on a single-actor theatrical production. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight that included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where she studied classics and history and came into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement.

Virginia Woolf's most unusual creation, Orlando is a fantastical biography as well as a funny, exuberant romp through history that examines the true nature of sexuality. As a teenage boy, the handsome Orlando serves as a page at the Elizabethan court and becomes the favourite of the elderly queen. After Elizabeth's death, he falls deeply in love with Sasha, an elusive and somewhat feral princess in the entourage of the Russian embassy. 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. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies.

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman. With a new introduction by Jeanette Winterson. Woolf's most lighthearted novel is a playful and exuberant romp through history. As a teenage nobleman, Orlando spends his days in revelry at the colorful Tudor court of Queen Elizabeth and his nights in writing earnest poetry. A favorite of the elderly queen, he falls in love with and is jilted by a wayward Russian princess. Two kings later, having reached his thirties, Orlando is sent to serve as ambassador to Constantinople, where he awakens one day to find himself in the body of a woman. The Lady Orlando takes this circumstance in stride and returns to England, where she engages in love affairs with both men and women, consorts with the famous poets of each age, finds happiness with an unconventional husband, and at last achieves publication of her own epic poem in the year 1928, the same year that Woolf published her novel. With its blend of fantastical adventure and satirical wit, Orlando was an immediate popular and critical success, one whose status as a classic has only grown with time. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Virdzhinija Vulf (1882-1941) - britanskaja pisatelnitsa, jarkaja predstavitelnitsa modernistskogo napravlenija v literature, vkhodivshaja v znamenityj kruzhok Blumsberi, avtor romanov, stavshikh klassikoj "potoka soznanija". V ejo proizvedenijakh raskryvaetsja istorija anglijskogo modernizma s ego ljubovju k slovu, ego zvuchaniju, smyslovym ottenkam i assotsiatsijam. Ona eksperimentirovala s potokom soznanija i vydeljala ne tolko psikhologicheskij, no i emotsionalnyj komponent v povedenii glavnykh geroev. Romany Vulf ustremleny k samo

Klarissa Dellouej, svetskaja dama pjatidesjati s nebolshim let, gotovitsja k priemu, kotoryj organizuet u sebja doma. Utrom ona vykhodit iz doma za tsvetami, ona ikh ochen ljubit, nado objazatelno ukrasit imi dom k vecheru. Guljaja po Londonu, ona vspominaet svoju junost, pervuju ljubov. V drugom rajone Londona Septimus Uorren Smit, veteran Pervoj mirovoj vojny, stradajuschij ot kontuzii, idet so svoej zhenoj Lukretsiej na priem k psikhiatru. Den Smita perepletaetsja s dnem Klarissy i ee druzej, ikh zhizni skhodjatsja voedino, kogda vecherinka dostigaet svoego apogeja. Uznav o tragedii so Smitom, Klarissa pereosmyslivaet svoju zhizn i otnoshenie k smerti. Masterskij roman Virdzhinii Vulf, v kotorom v kotorom proshloe, nastojaschee i buduschee slivajutsja v odin znamenatelnyj den v ijune 1923 goda.

Virdzhinija Vulf - odin iz samykh znachimykh avtorov dvadtsatogo veka. Ee stil "potoka soznanija", organichno vpletajuschij v tkan povestvovanija sluchajnye mysli i okrashennye svetloj pechalju nostalgii vospominanija i fantazii, po sej den zavorazhivaet chitatelej po vsemu miru. V sbornik "Dom s prividenijami" voshlo devjatnadtsat korotkikh rasskazov, nekotorye iz kotorykh byli opublikovany posmertno. Khotite nasladitsja izyskannym i vitievatym stilem Virdzhinii Vulf na jazyke originala, no boites, chto nedostatochno znaete jazyk? Otbroste somnenija s adaptatsiej ot redaktsii Lingua! Teksty rasskazov sokrascheny i adaptirovany dlja prodolzhajuschikh izuchenie anglijskogo jazyka (Uroven 2 - Pre-Intermediate). V kontse knigi vy najdete poleznyj slovar, gde vy najdete vse slova, vyzyvajuschie trudnosti.

Klarissa Dellouej, svetskaja dama pjatidesjati s nebolshim let, gotovitsja k prijomu, kotoryj organizuet u sebja doma. Utrom ona vykhodit iz doma za tsvetami, ona ikh ochen ljubit, nado objazatelno ukrasit imi dom k vecheru. Guljaja po Londonu, ona vspominaet svoju junost, pervuju ljubov. V drugom rajone Londona Septimus Uorren Smit, veteran Pervoj mirovoj vojny, stradajuschij ot kontuzii, idjot so svoej zhenoj Lukretsiej na prijom k psikhiatru. Den Smita perepletaetsja s dnjom Klarissy i ejo druzej, ikh zhizni skhodjatsja voedino, kogda vecherinka dostigaet svoego apogeja. Uznav o tragedii so Smitom, Klarissa pereosmyslivaet svoju zhizn i otnoshenie k smerti. Masterskij roman Virdzhinii Vulf, v kotorom v kotorom proshloe, nastojaschee i buduschee slivajutsja v odin znamenatelnyj den v ijune 1923 goda. "Na majak" - kniga kategoricheski neobychnaja. Dva dnja, razdelennye desjatiletnim promezhutkom vremeni. Izobrazhennye idei, nastroenija i dukhovnyj opyt. Pamjat, s pomoschju kotoroj postepenno i nezametno v etot tonkij i izjaschnyj roman vkhodit bolshaja zhizn. Takovo samoe znamenitoe proizvedenie Virdzhinii Vulf. Na ego stranitsakh bolshaja semi Remzi, provodja leto na ostrove Skaj, mechtaet otpravitsja k majaku, kotoryj viden s ikh berega. Ezhednevno missis Remzi soobschaet, chto otets otvezet ikh tuda na sledujuschij den. Odnako poezdka vse otkladyvaetsja i otkladyvaetsja. Opisav etu istoriju, Vulf sumela narisovat prichudlivyj obemnyj risunok chelovecheskikh vzaimootnoshenij i rasskazat, kak i chto dumajut zhenschiny i muzhchiny, poka ikh nikto ne slyshit.

Na protjazhenii vsej svoej zhizni Virdzhinija Vulf pisala rasskazy: delala nebolshie zametki i otkladyvala ikh, poka oni ne stanovilis chastju romanov ili dorabotannymi proizvedenijami. V 1921 godu uvidel svet edinstvennyj prizhiznennyj sbornik pod nazvaniem "Ponedelnik il vtornik" (1921). V 1940 godu ona reshila vypustit novuju knigu, vkljuchiv v nee kak uzhe vykhodivshie rasskazy - shest iz knigi i shest, napechatannykh v razlichnykh zhurnalakh, - tak i ranee ne opublikovannye. Etu ideju ona mnogo obsuzhdala s muzhem - Leonardom Vulfom, kotoryj i izdal v 1941 godu - uzhe posle ee smerti - sbornik iz vosemnadtsati rasskazov "Dom s prividenijami". Sjuzhety svoikh rasskazov Vulf stroit kak nabljudenija za ljudmi, javlenijami ili situatsijami. I eti nabljudenija porozhdajut razmyshlenija, fiksirujut v slovakh sostojanija, mysli i poisk istiny.

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The beautiful Everyman gift edition in hardback. The Lord Orlando's country seat has 365 rooms. An exquisitely beautiful youth, he is a favourite of the ageing Queen Elizabeth and enjoys all that Court and tavern have to offer. He falls passionately in love with the intriguing Sasha, an androgynous Russian princess, who jilts him. Stricken, he takes up Literature, penning huge quantities of poems and plays, 'all romantic, and all long'. A few decades later a still youthful Orlando is appointed ambassador to Constantinople by Charles II. Here he wakes up one day and finds he has the body of a woman. "Different sex, same person", she observes, unphased. In London, it is the eighteenth century, and she can hobnob with "men of genius" Pope and Swift, Johnson and Boswell. She has affairs with both women and men, but before long it is the nineteenth century, oppressively gloomy and moral and probably time to find a husband. Fortunately, in a Brontësque moment on a moor, the gender- nonconforming Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, newly back from Cape Horn, gallops past and scoops her up into bliss. Woolf's most unusual and joyous novel was inspired by her affair with the dashing author and aristocrat, Vita Sackville West.

This Norton Critical Edition includes: • The American edition of the novel, first published by Harcourt Brace in 1927, introduced and annotated by Margaret Homans. • A 1924-28 chronology of To the Lighthouse’s composition, revision, publication and reception. • A rich selection of background materials, thematically organized for ease of reference. Topics include: “Autobiographical Writings,” “Family and Other Contemporary Contexts and Sources,” “Essays by Virginia Woolf,” and “Literary Sources.” • Nine critical assessments of To the Lighthouse, from publication to the present day, by Arthur Sydney McDowell, Louis Kronenberger, Mary Colum, Francis Brown, Erich Auerbach, Adrienne Rich, Rachel Bowlby, Pamela L. Caughie, and Urmila Seshagiri. • A chronology and a selected bibliography