num_pages: 400
description: Virginia Woolf's exuberant `biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the `life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virginia Woolf's own day-to-day existence; it is also Woolf's light-hearted and light-handed teasing out of the assumptions that lie behind the normal conventions for writing about a fictional or historical life. In this novel, Virginia Woolf plays loose and Orlando uncovers a literary and sexual revolution overnight.
language: English
title: Orlando
titlecomplete: Orlando
characters: Orlando, Sasha, Nicholas Greene, Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Queer, Feminism, Novels, LGBT, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 86917
places: United Kingdom, England
publisher: Oxford University Press