Orlando (Annotated)

A Biography

384 pages

English language

Published July 3, 2006 by Harvest Books.

ISBN:
978-0-15-603151-6
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In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman three centuries later.

74 editions

Crazy, but maybe slighlty less than the real-life model

I found it pleasant to read, and quite refreshing.

The "turn" of centuries, when all of a sudden systemic change occurs (including climate changes) I found a special treat.

Subjects

  • Transsexuals -- Fiction
  • Nobility -- Fiction
  • Sex role -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction