{"product_id":"orlando-2","title":"Orlando","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf''s \u003cem\u003eOrlando\u003c\/em\u003e ''The longest and most charming love letter in literature'', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf''s close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth''s England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490181259637,"sku":"9781853262395","price":4.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781853262395.jpg?v=1786442066","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/orlando-2","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}