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Verlag: Oxford Univ Pr, 1996
ISBN 10: 0192818252ISBN 13: 9780192818256
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. He-for there could be no doubt about his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it-was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters. It was the colour of an old football, and more or less the shape of one, save for the sunken cheeks and a strand or two of coarse, dry hair, like the hair of a coconut. Orlando's father, or perhaps his grandfather, had struck it from the shoulders of a vast Pagan who had started up under the moon in the barbarian fields of Africa; and now it swung, gently, perpetually, in the breeze which never ceased blowing through the attic rooms of the gigantic house of the lord who had slain him. Orlando's fathers had ridden in fields of asphodel, and stony fields, and fields watered by strange rivers, and they had struck many heads of many colours off many shoulders, and brought them back to hang from the rafters. So too would Orlando, he vowed. But since he was sixteen only, and too young to ride with them in Africa or France, he would steal away from his mother and the peacocks in the garden and go to his attic room and there lunge and plunge and slice the air with his blade. Sometimes he cut the cord so that the skull bumped on the floor and he had to string it up again, fastening it with some chivalry almost out of reach so that his enemy grinned at him through shrunk, black lips triumphantly.
Verlag: Oxford University Press España, S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0192834738ISBN 13: 9780192834737
Anbieter: Hamelyn, Madrid, Spanien
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Zustand: Como nuevo. Virginia Woolf's exuberant `biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the `life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virginia Woolf's own day-to-day existence; it is also Woolf's light-hearted and light-handed teasing out of the assumptions that lie behind the normal conventions for writing about a fictional or historical life. In this novel, Virginia Woolf plays loose and fast: Orlando uncovers a literary and sexual revolution overnight. EAN: 9780192834737 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y ficción| Ficción por género Título: Oxford World's Classics: Orlando: a BiographyAutor: Varios Autores Editorial: Oxford University Press España, S.A. (21 mayo 1998) Idioma: EN Páginas: 416 Formato: Tapa blanda Peso: 275 Año de publicación: 1998.
Verlag: Oxford University Press España, S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0192834738ISBN 13: 9780192834737
Anbieter: Starx Products, North York, ON, Kanada
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Pages and cover are intact. The spine and cover show minimal signs of wear. May have limited notes or highlighting/underlining.