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    WOOLF: Orlando
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  • Virginia WoolfOrlandoVirginia Woolf was born in 1882, the daughter of editor andcritic Leslie Stephen. The early deaths of her mother, stepsister and brotherleft her prone to bouts of depression, which continued throughout her life.After teaching for a time at a college for workingwomen in south London, shebegan writing reviews for The Times Literary Supplement and was drawn into agroup of radical writers and artists later to be known as the Bloomsbury Group.Here she met the socialist intellectual, Leonard Woolf whom she married in 1912and together they founded the Hogarth Press, whose list included suchinfluential literary figures as T.S. Eliot and Katherine Mansfield. Through her early essays and articles and later her novels,Virginia Woolf gained a reputation as a feminist and modernist and wasparticularly interested in the effects of social and historical forces onindividual lives. Her major novels include: Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To theLighthouse (1927), A Room of One’s Own (1929) and The Waves (1931). In 1941, overcomeby fear of another attack of depression, she drowned herself. In 1927, when Virginia Woolf was planning Orlando, shedescribed her book as an ‘escapade’ and ‘a love letter’. It was an ‘escapade’ becauseshe needed a ‘writer’s holiday’: she wanted to write a book about history,biography, the meaning of time and sexual ambiguity. But it was to be wild andfantastic and it was to be a ‘love letter’ to the aristocratic, sensual andcharismatic Vita Sackville West, upon whom the character of Orlando is based.It was Virginia Woolf’s romantic fascination with Vita that led her to writethe book with such speed and exhilaration. Vita Sackville West was openlybisexual, enjoyed cross-dressing and conducted a passionate and public affairwith Violet Trefusis. But this is no ordinary fictionalized biography. ForOrlando, time is elastic: we follow him through three centuries, from the courtof Queen Elizabeth I to the London of Charles II; into the gloom of thenineteenth century; and finally to the bustle of London in the 1920s. Not only is time elastic… Orlando also defies theconstraints of anatomy: he is first male, then female; a tortured writer, thena man of action; an intellectual and a woman of fashion. Orlando is all ofthese and none of them. Here is a unique and dazzling character that travelsthrough time and space and becomes a complex synthesis of diverse incarnations.This immensely lyrical work ends with a final epiphany, in which we are leftwith one of the most unforgettable creations of twentieth century literature. Notes by Heather Godwin Laura Paton A frequent reader for Naxos AudioBooks, Laura Paton trainedat LAMDA where she won the St. Phillip’s Prize for Poetry and the Michael WarreAward. She has toured the UK extensively in productions as varied as The TwoGentlemen of Verona and Oscar Wilde’s Salomé.
  • • 作品列表
    • • CD01
      • 作品编号：23216  Orlando

      • Orlando In Elizabethan England

      • Queen Elizabeth I Arrives

      • The Great Frost - 1608

      • 'The Night Was Dark' - Flight

      • Exile From Court

      • The Oak Tree

      • The Object Of Satire

      • The Archduchess

      • Orlando In Constantinople

      • The Dukedom Is Conferred

      • Transformation

      • Orlando - A Woman

      • Femininity

      • 18th Century London

      • CD02
      • 作品编号：23216  Orlando

      • Return To Home

      • Life And A Lover

      • Literary Society - Pope And Addison

      • Night Journey

      • Adventure As A man

      • The 19th Century

      • Victorian Romance

      • Marriage

      • Poetry

      • Publication

      • The Kingfisher

      • Marshall And Snelgrove

      • The Wild Goose