Dwarsligger xxx is Orlando van Virginia Woolf, een ode aan de verbeelding, aan de taal, aan de schoonheid, aan de zintuigen, aan het leven. Orlando is een jonge dichter die in Engeland wordt geboren tijdens de heerschappij van koningin Elisabeth, met wie hij in zijn jonge jaren een korte affaire heeft. Na haar dood wordt Orlando de minnaar van een Russische prinses. In de winternacht waarin zij s
Title
Orlando
Author
Virginia Woolf
Author of introduction
Marja Pruis
Translator
Gerardine Franken
Language
Dutch
Original language
English
Original title
Orlando : a biography
Publisher
Amsterdam: Dwarsligger, 2020
12 cm
Publication date
08-12-2020
ISBN
9789049808013 (paperback)

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About Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight that included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where she studied classics and history and came into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement.

Encouraged by her father, Woolf began …Read more on Wikipedia