- Nobility in fiction, Gender identity in fiction, Fiction, England in fiction
In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman three centuries later.
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Prestige, warm, contemplative and cool.
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- First published
- 1928
- Pages
- 226
- Publisher
- Norton & Company Limited, W. W., New York, Wisehouse Classics
- Editions
- 452
- Language
- slv, cat, Portuguese, dan
- ISBN
- 9781075236129
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“HE-for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it-was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.”
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ([Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf).) [Comment from Ursula Le Guin on The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice): > You can't write science fiction well if you haven't read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven't read anything else. Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general
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