By Virginia Woolf / Manga by Alethia Noel
One life. Two genders. Three hundred years. Every word. Woolf's novel, kept whole and in her own order, drawn as manga. Volumes 1 and 2 are on their way.
Orlando (Unabridged Illustrated)
The Preface and Chapter I
England, 1586. Orlando is sixteen, a nobleman's son who writes tragedies in the attic and dreams of glory. Then old Queen Elizabeth comes to dinner, fixes him with her yellow eyes, and takes him to court.
The Queen dies. King James is crowned. The Thames freezes so hard that London holds a fair on the ice, and out of the crowd skates Sasha, a Russian princess who will break his heart.
Woolf's Orlando lives through three hundred years of English history and wakes one morning as a woman. This manga keeps every word of the novel, in Woolf's own order, across six volumes. Volume 1 is the Preface and Chapter I.
Words: Virginia Woolf / Manga adaptation: Alethia Noel
ISBN 979-8-954218-00-8ASIN A1985J8TBYGP0FAmazon links will appear here the day the listings go live.
Orlando (Unabridged Illustrated)
Chapter II
Disgraced and betrayed, Orlando falls into a trance for seven days. He wakes, shuts himself up in his great house with his dogs and his books, and falls in love with writing.
He asks a real poet to dinner. Nick Greene eats his food, then mocks him in print. Orlando burns all his work but The Oak Tree and pours a fortune into his house. Then the Archduchess Harriet arrives and will not leave, so he begs the King to send him abroad.
Woolf's Orlando lives through three hundred years of English history and wakes one morning as a woman. This manga keeps every word of the novel, in Woolf's own order, across six volumes. Volume 2 is Chapter II.
Words: Virginia Woolf / Manga adaptation: Alethia Noel
ISBN 979-8-954218-01-5ASIN AQ53TGH3LFOI2Amazon links will appear here the day the listings go live.
A few pages from inside the books, lettered in the same type you will hold in your hands. Click a page to enlarge it.
Orlando runs for six volumes. The rest follow, in order. No dates yet, and we would rather get them right than get them fast.
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Manga Unabridged turns classic novels into manga that keep every word of the original. Nothing is cut and nothing is rewritten. The author's sentences stay in the author's own order, and the pictures carry the rest.
Every book is lettered in comic type, and every page is drawn to be read the way manga is read.
Words by Virginia Woolf, taken directly from the text of the first English edition (The Hogarth Press, 1928) as printed by Penguin Books, 1993, and checked against Harcourt, 2006.