description: Penguin Books, published in 1946. The book, first published in Oct 1928, is a semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West. It is generally considered one of Woolf's most accessible novels. The novel has been influential stylistically, and is considered important in literature generally, and particularly in the history of women's writing and gender studies.
language: English
title: Orlando
titlecomplete: Orlando
characters: Nicholas Greene, Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, Sasha, Orlando
genres: Fiction, Historical, Queer, LGBT, Literature, Classics, Feminism, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 86917
places: England, United Kingdom
publisher: Signet Classics