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Orlando is one of Virginia Woolf's most-celebrated works. A cornerstone in feminist literature, the novel explores the complexities of gender, identity, sexuality, and self-discovery.

'Love, the poet has said, is woman's whole existence.'

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Few works have been as audacious, innovative, and profoundly influential in literature as Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography . This remarkable novel defies convention and transcends boundaries, taking readers on a surreal journey through time, gender fluidity, and love. This... Read Full Overview

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'

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'The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated... Read Full Overview

Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of... Read Full Overview

Virginia Woolf's satirical, prescient novel Orlando, published in 1928, is a groundbreaking work that explores themes of gender, identity, and time. The narrative features a nobleman named Orlando who lives over three centuries, beginning in the Elizabethan era and ending... Read Full Overview

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" Orlando: A Biography " by Virginia Woolf is a captivating journey through time and identity, a tale that spans centuries and transcends conventional boundaries. Beginning as a passionate sixteen-year-old nobleman in the vibrant court of Queen Elizabeth I , Orlando's tale takes... Read Full Overview

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman. With a new introduction by Jeanette Winterson.

Few works have been as audacious, innovative, and profoundly influential in literature as Virginia Woolf's Orl ando: A Biography . This remarkable novel defies convention and transcends boundaries, taking readers on a surreal journey through time, gender fluidity, and love. Orlando... Read Full Overview

" Preface. Many friends have helped me in writing this book. Some are dead and so illustrious that I scarcely dare name them, yet no one can read or write without being perpetually in the debt of Defoe, Sir Thomas Browne, Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, Emily Bronte,... Read Full Overview

Orlando is a young nobleman who serves Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with a Russian princess. But his life takes a surprising turn when he wakes up one day as a woman. Now, Orlando must navigate the changing world of English literature, society, and politics, while also... Read Full Overview