This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s content and main themes, as well as a useful introduction to the real-life inspiration behind it. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no...
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Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis)
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
978280801499150EBookPlurilingua PublishingThis practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s content and main themes, as well as a useful introduction to the real-life inspiration behind it. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 50-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Virginia Woolf
Presentation of Orlando: A Biography
Summary of Orlando: A Biography
Character study
Orlando
Sasha
Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, Esquire
Analysis of Orlando: A Biography
A love letter to Vita Sackville-West
Parody
Orlando and gender roles
The illustrations in Orlando: A Biography
About Orlando: A Biography
As its title suggests, Orlando: A Biography is a fictionalized biography which tells the story of the young nobleman Orlando. Orlando’s life is certainly remarkable: after growing up male, he wakes up one day as a woman and proceeds to live for some 400 years without visibly ageing. The novel was inspired by Woolf’s close friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, and a number of its characters are based on real people, including the mysterious Russian aristocrat Sasha, believed to be inspired by Violet Trefusis, with whom Sackville-West had a long and passionate relationship.
About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential figures of interwar English literature. She was born in London in 1882 and died in Sussex in 1941. She was a pioneer of the literary movement of modernism, wrote a variety of essays, short stories and novels, and founded her own publishing house with her husband in 1917. Her best-known works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando: A Biography and The Waves. She was plagued by mental health troubles throughout her life and committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59.This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s content and main themes, as well as a useful introduction to the real-life inspiration behind it. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 50-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Virginia Woolf
Presentation of Orlando: A Biography
Summary of Orlando: A Biography
Character study
Orlando
Sasha
Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, Esquire
Analysis of Orlando: A Biography
A love letter to Vita Sackville-West
Parody
Orlando and gender roles
The illustrations in Orlando: A Biography
About Orlando: A Biography
As its title suggests, Orlando: A Biography is a fictionalized biography which tells the story of the young nobleman Orlando. Orlando’s life is certainly remarkable: after growing up male, he wakes up one day as a woman and proceeds to live for some 400 years without visibly ageing. The novel was inspired by Woolf’s close friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, and a number of its characters are based on real people, including the mysterious Russian aristocrat Sasha, believed to be inspired by Violet Trefusis, with whom Sackville-West had a long and passionate relationship.
About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential figures of interwar English literature. She was born in London in 1882 and died in Sussex in 1941. She was a pioneer of the literary movement of modernism, wrote a variety of essays, short stories and novels, and founded her own publishing house with her husband in 1917. Her best-known works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando: A Biography and The Waves. She was plagued by mental health troubles throughout her life and committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59.application/pdf1
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This clear and detailed 50-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Virginia Woolf
- Presentation of Orlando: A Biography
- Summary of Orlando: A Biography
- Character study
- Orlando
- Sasha
- Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, Esquire
- Analysis of Orlando: A Biography
- A love letter to Vita Sackville-West
- Parody
- Orlando and gender roles
- The illustrations in Orlando: A Biography
About Orlando: A Biography
As its title suggests, Orlando: A Biography is a fictionalized biography which tells the story of the young nobleman Orlando. Orlando’s life is certainly remarkable: after growing up male, he wakes up one day as a woman and proceeds to live for some 400 years without visibly ageing. The novel was inspired by Woolf’s close friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, and a number of its characters are based on real people, including the mysterious Russian aristocrat Sasha, believed to be inspired by Violet Trefusis, with whom Sackville-West had a long and passionate relationship.
About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential figures of interwar English literature. She was born in London in 1882 and died in Sussex in 1941. She was a pioneer of the literary movement of modernism, wrote a variety of essays, short stories and novels, and founded her own publishing house with her husband in 1917. Her best-known works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando: A Biography and The Waves. She was plagued by mental health troubles throughout her life and committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59.
Product details
| ISBN | 9782808014991 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
| Collection | Brightsummaries.com |
| Format | |
| Pages | 50 |
| File size | 2.2 MB |
