Today I purchased my paperback copy of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" for $3, from the Wordsworth Classics series, which has a website at www.wordsworth-editions.com (I purchased it in a local bookstore).
"Orlando Spoilers" would be a great name for a professional sports team.
I am gearing myself up for this month's reading. I have hired some highschool cheerleaders to do some Orlando cheers (GIve me an O.... O!) and then spell out Woolf in pom-poms.....
OK, guys and gals.... enough... off to the locker rooms.....
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/orlando/context.html
Orlando was written at the height of Woolf's career. It was an extremely popular book when it was published. In the first six months after publication it sold over eight thousand copies, whereas To the Lighthouse sold less than half that amount. Woolf's income from book sales nearly tripled with the publication of Orlando.
Virginia's manic-depression was worst just as she was finishing a novel. Unable to handle criticism, Woolf was vulnerable to breakdowns.Originally Posted by Sitaram
A perfectionist, she labored over her novels until the very last moment.
Orlando closes himself up inside his house with 365 rooms and fifty-two staircases.
Originally Posted by FreudOriginally Posted by Jung
Orlando becomes engaged to Euphrosyne, a woman of incredibly high birth and connections.
It is interesting that, in ancient Greek, SOPHrosyne means restraint, moderation, prudence. But Euphrosyne has a different meaning.
http://www.theoi.com/Kronos/Kharites.html
And Eurynome, the daughter of Okeanos, beautiful in form, bare him [Zeus] three fair-cheeked Kharites (Graces), Aglaia, and Euphrosyne, and lovely Thaleia, from whose eyes as they glanced flowed love that unnerves the limbs: and beautiful is their glance beneath their brows." -Theogony 907
"There [on Olympos] are their [the Mousai's] bright dancing-places and beautiful homes, and beside them the Kharites (Graces) and Himerus (Desire) live in delight." -Theogony 53
EUPHROSYNE was one of the three KHARITES and the goddess of mirth and merriment.
"Open of yourselves, you doors, for mightly Ploutos (Wealth) will enter in, and with Ploutos comes jolly Euphrosyne (Mirth) and gentle Eirene (Peace)." -Homer's Epigrams XV
Nota bene: SASHA is a nickname for ALEXANDER, it is a boy's name.