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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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Virginia Woolf's fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman, with a new introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.

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.

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

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

" 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

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

'He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed 'Truth Truth Truth ' we have no choice left but confess - he was a woman.' A young man in the court of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I, the beautiful Orlando seems to... Read Full Overview

Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando is her most entertaining and exciting book. The mock biography recounts the life of a sixteenth-century nobleman who ends up as a woman writer in 1920s England. Over the centuries Orlando lives through the gamut of human experience as both... Read Full Overview

A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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