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Orlando

By Virginia Woolf, Sandra Gilbert (Contributor)

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| eBook | 9780141919898

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Book Description

Orlando has always been an outsider...

His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England amd imperial Turkey to the modern world.

Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian P Continue

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Orlando

La presentazione e le recensioni di Orlando, opera di Virginia Woolf edita da Mondadori. Eroe irresponsabile, Orlando attraversa lieve i secoli, trasformandosi in donna e oscillando poi tra i due sessi. Un romanzo smagliante e imprevedibile, messaggi ... (read full critics)

Qlibri published on Fri, 30 Mar 2012

Orlando

Siamo nell'Inghilterra di Elisabetta I. Orlando è un affascinante nobile. La bellezza e l'ambiguità dei suoi tratti sono armi in grado di conquistare la regina, che infatti lo introduce a corte. Lì Orlando, divenuto il prediletto di Sua Maestà, vive ... (read full critics)

mangialibri published on Fri, 17 Feb 2012

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Orlando

Not my favorite Woolf's work. Interesting story, but an hard readable style.

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Ste said on Apr 4, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Just fun and wit, a great reading.

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Gorgoneion said on Jul 15, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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this is just out of imagination, i am fascinated by the gender issue in it.
one needs time to digest it, i am still thinking it all over after two weeks

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Clio said on Jul 19, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

I really enjoy the relationship between clothing and genders and the ridiculous but imaginary description of people lying on the ice sliding down the Thames. A reader may enjoy the book more after watching the great performance of Wei Hai-min.

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Jessica Yeh said on Jan 8, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

brain-wearing

I enjoyed reading some bits of this book, and very witty ones I must say, but for the most part I sourly regretted to have ever picked it up.
Woolf's self-possessed, delirious flow of nonsensical prose dominates the best part of the last sixty pages.
Turning over the last pages I was so profoundly ... (continue)

I enjoyed reading some bits of this book, and very witty ones I must say, but for the most part I sourly regretted to have ever picked it up.
Woolf's self-possessed, delirious flow of nonsensical prose dominates the best part of the last sixty pages.
Turning over the last pages I was so profoundly distressed that I did not even grudge for the lack of a proper ending(though some philosopher might differ as to the propriety of the ending); I just felt an incredible surge of blessed relief at the sudden realization of being done with it.
I look forward to the day when I might forget the pang which any forced, time-slashing activity as reading this book was.

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daniele said on Sep 15, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

"No human being, since the world began, has ever looked more ravishing. His form combined in one the strenght of a man and a woman's grace".
Un po' di invidia per Orlando l'ho provata, devo ammetterlo... in fondo anch'io avrei voluto combinare in me la forza maschile e la grazia femminile, ma p ... (continue)

"No human being, since the world began, has ever looked more ravishing. His form combined in one the strenght of a man and a woman's grace".
Un po' di invidia per Orlando l'ho provata, devo ammetterlo... in fondo anch'io avrei voluto combinare in me la forza maschile e la grazia femminile, ma purtroppo sono carente in entrambi i campi :-(
Capolavoro, e molto bello anche il film con Tilda Swinton.

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chrisdavis said on Feb 14, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback