DKTODAY หนังสือ WORDSWORTH READERS: ORLANDO
WORDSWORTH READERS:ORLANDO
ISBN.9781853262395
Virginia Woolfs Orlando The longest and most charming love letter in literature playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolfs close friend and lover Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries the novel opens as Orlando a young nobleman in Elizabeths England awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel Orlando now an ambassador in Costantinople awakes to find that he is a woman and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928 a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando now a wife and mother stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.
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