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This piece sits within classic literary fiction and feminist literary traditions, offering a bold blend of historical imagination and playful fantasy. It follows a chameleon-like figure who begins life as a sixteenth-century nobleman and travels through centuries, ultimately inhabiting a modern female writerโs voice. The central themes are identity, gender, and the art of storytelling, explored with wit and intellectual curiosity. The intended reader is adults who enjoy gender studies, literary experimentation, and rich, risky prose, with an adventurous and thought-provoking emotional tone.
The content is presented as a story-led, biographical-in-style narrative, using a playful mock biography to explore how identity can be performed and reimagined across eras. The reading experience is distinctive for its seamless blend of historical texture with imaginative fantasy, offering a journey that feels both intimate and expansive. Readers move through the text with a voice that shifts with time, inviting reflection on what it means to be born into one era and write in another.
In this edition, a scholarly introduction and notes illuminate themes of gender, authorship, and historical perspective, helping readers connect literary form with cultural context. The approach invites careful reading, open interpretation, and lively discussion about how narratives bend rules and how history can be rewritten in defiant, playful ways.
Readers finish with a refreshed perspective on identity, time, and the craft of storytelling, along with a heightened curiosity and a lasting appreciation for literary experimentation.
Product Details
Author
Virginia Woolf
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Language
English
SKU
9780241371961
ISBN
9780241371961
Reading Age
All
Binding
Hardback
MRP: โน 499
โน 475
โน 24 Off
Virginia Woolf, Born On 25 January 1882, Was One Of The Most Inventive Authors Of The Twentieth Century. Though Mrs Dalloway (1925) And To Theighthouse (1927) Are Perhaps Her Best-Known Works, She Was Also A Prolific Writer Of Essays, Diaries, Correspondence And Biographies. Woolf โS Writing Depicts The Rapidly Evolving World In Which She Wasiving In Both Style And Subject Matter. She Struggled With Mental Illness Throughout Herife And Attempted Suicide Twice Before Drowning Herself In River Ouse On 28 March 1941.