Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Orlando
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Orlando is a young nobleman at the court of Elizabeth I who wants to be a poet. He lives for more than three hundred years, wakes one morning in Constantinople a woman, and goes on writing into the twentieth century. Woolf's playful mock-biography, written for Vita Sackville-West (1928).
About the author
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English novelist and essayist, and one of the central figures of literary modernism. She wrote novels that follow consciousness rather than plot — a day in a city, a decade passing in an empty house — and found a form for the way attention actually moves. With her husband Leonard she ran the Hogarth Press, which published her own books along with T. S. Eliot and the first English translations of Freud. Her work includes Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves and the essay A Room of One's Own.