Orlando

Virginia Woolf's giddy, genre-defying romp follows one poet across four centuries and two genders, turning biography into a love letter and a sly interrogation of identity itself.

At a glance A young Elizabethan nobleman lies dreaming under an oak tree, and by the time he wakes… What it's about Orlando mocks the conventions of biography by giving its subject an… Beginning at the court of Elizabeth I and ending in Woolf's own present, the novel… Written for and inspired by Vita Sackville-West, it is at once a fantasy, a joke, and a…

Orlando mocks the conventions of biography by giving its subject an impossible life. Beginning at the court of Elizabeth I and ending in Woolf's own present, the novel follows a single restless, poetry-obsessed figure…