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02242aam a2200337 i 4500 001 8C42CA36F0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240402011628 008 240111s2024 nyu b 001 1 und d 020 $a 1101908327 020 $a 9781101908327 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a PR6045.O72 $b O7 2023 082 04 $a 823/.91 $2 23 100 1 $a Woolf, Virginia, $d 1882-1941, $e author. 245 10 $a Orlando : $b a biography / $c Virgina Woolf ; with an Introduction by Jeanette Winterson. 250 $a [Contemporary Classics hardcover edition] 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Everyman's Library, $c 2024. 300 $a xxxv, 200 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 0 $a Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series. 500 $a "This is a Borzoi book"-- Verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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."-- Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Transgender people $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nobility $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sex role $v Fiction. 651 0 $a England $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Winterson, Jeanette, $d 1959- $e writer of introduction. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240402011822.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8C42CA36F0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search