Blog this item

Orlando (Annotated)

A Biography

By Virginia Woolf

(252)

| Paperback | 9780156031516

Like Orlando (Annotated)?
Join aNobii to see if your friends read it, and discover similar books!

Book Description

Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, Continue

7 Reviews

1 person find this helpful

Orlando

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

Is this helpful?

Ste said on Apr 4, 2011 | Add your feedback

1 person find this helpful

Just fun and wit, a great reading.

Is this helpful?

Gorgoneion said on Jul 15, 2009 | Add your feedback

1 person find this helpful

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

Is this helpful?

Clio said on Jul 19, 2008 | 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.

Is this helpful?

Jessica Yeh said on Jan 8, 2010 | 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.

Is this helpful?

daniele said on Sep 15, 2009 | 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.

Is this helpful?

chrisdavis said on Feb 14, 2008 | Add your feedback