{"product_id":"orlando-9781853262395","title":"Orlando","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Virginia Woolf\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wordsworth Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf's \u003cem\u003eOrlando\u003c\/em\u003e 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wordsworth Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45031835533463,"sku":"9781853262395","price":423.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781853262395.webp?v=1769207302","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/orlando-9781853262395","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}