Full name: Orlando: A Biography

Author: Virginia Woolf Year: 1928 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Fantasy, Free books, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble OpenLibrary eBooks.com Wikipedia LibraryThing FadedPage ISBNs: 9780156701600 9780141184272 015670160X 0141184272

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women. Similar books: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Night and Day by Virginia Woolf The Waves by Virginia Woolf Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence The Years by Virginia Woolf Howards End by E. M. Forster The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Golden Ass by Apuleius Conan the Conqueror by Robert E. Howard Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck Beowulf by Unknown