{"product_id":"orlando-9781786892454","title":"Orlando","description":"\u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf's seductive, provocative masterpiece is a whirlwind adventure through time, gender and identity. Introduced by Tilda Swinton.\u003c\/p\u003e'He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed 'Truth! Truth! Truth!' we have no choice left but confess - he was a woman.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young man in the court of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I, the beautiful Orlando seems to belong everywhere and nowhere. One morning, Orlando awakens transformed - transported into the eighteenth century, and the body of a woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the twentieth century's defining imaginings of queer identity, \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of radical possibilities -boy and girl, past and future, nature and magic, life and history, love and literature. One of the most thrilling love letters in all literature, it trespasses thrillingly over the borders of place, time and self.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781786892454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: Main - Canons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 24 Aug 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Canongate Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: Edinburgh, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.9(L)x1.7(W)224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 224\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eVirginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. Shortly after her father's death, she moved to Bloomsbury where, with her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, Virginia met writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, forming what later became known as the Bloomsbury Group. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf and together, in 1917, they founded their own printing press. Virginia Woolf met Vita Sackville-West in 1922, for whom the brilliant fantasy of \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e was written. She died in 1941 after drowning herself in the River Ouse.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e is the book to put under your pillow and rest upon -- TILDA SWINTON\u003cbr\u003eWonderfully bold and inventive *  * Observer *  *\u003cbr\u003eSexy, provocative and tantalising -- JEANETTE WINTERSON\u003cbr\u003eA book that refuses all constraints: historical, fantastical, metaphysical, sociological . . . \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e is a joyful and passionate declaration of love as life, regardless of gender . . . Reading \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e is a pleasure. It is like sitting up all night by the fire with an old friend and a bottle of wine, where the talk is easy, whether of great things or small, and when, as morning comes, you feel better *  * New Statesman *  *","brand":"Virginia Woolf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48926808506585,"sku":"9781786892454","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781786892454.jpg?v=1783736294","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/orlando-9781786892454","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}