A-Z Wednesday is hosted by Vicki at Reading At The Beach. To join in, just visit her blog for the guidelines and leave your link in a comment.This week's letter is "O." So I went to my shelves, and this is what I pulled out.
Orlando
Written by Virginia Woolf
First published by the Hogarth Press, 1928
The cover of the first edition.
Written by Virginia Woolf
First published by the Hogarth Press, 1928
The cover of the first edition.Description from Good Reads:
In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending . . . Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic.
See the book's page at Wikipedia.
The cover of my old Signet Classics edition (complete with coffee-cup stain):
The cover of a recent audio version of the book:
And a selection of various covers the book has sported over the years:
Orlando has been one of my favorite books since I first read it over forty years ago (I was such a precocious youngster!). Set in England and Constantinople, and spanning almost four centuries of wild and crazy adventures, it's a unique and fascinating literary experience.
I am disappointed in myself for not yet finishing a Virginia Woolf book. I really thought I was going to read Mrs. Dalloway, but for whatever reason, I couldn't get into it. My mood was weird...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, someday!
My post:
http://laurel-rain-outonalimb.blogspot.com/2010/05/z-wednesday_18.html
Hi!
ReplyDeleteI must admit I haven't read Ms. Woolf's books. I just can't seem to get into the books wrote in that era. Maybe someday. Have a great day!
Sherrie
Just Books
http://sherriesbooks.blogspot.com/2010/05/z-wednesday_19.html
I have never read a Virginia Woolf book. I do like the covers.
ReplyDeleteMy `O` is up
http://newhorizonreviews.blogspot.com/2010/05/out-of-dust-by-karen-hesse.html
Great pick1 I love that you feature all the different covers!
ReplyDeleteI am another one that must admit that I haven't read anything by Woolf yet...worst yet, I don't even have one of her books on my shelf!
ReplyDeleteNot one I would normally read, but maybe should.
ReplyDeletehttp://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2010/05/to-z-starts-with-o.html
I have never read a Virginia Woolf book, either. I love the covers of the books!
ReplyDeleteI have not read Virginia's books. A couple of those covers would have me picking up the book to check it out.
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