Orlando

Orlando

<p> Orlando is a poet who wakes one morning as a woman — and lives for centuries, moving through Elizabethan courts, the frozen Thames of the Great Frost, the salons of Constantinople, and the drawing rooms of Victorian England. Inspired by Virginia Woolf's brilliant, tempestuous relationship with aristocratic writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a love letter disguised as biography, a satire of English literary history, and a dazzling meditation on identity, time, and the nature of the self. </p> <p> First published in 1928, it remains one of Woolf's most exhilarating and accessible works — playful where her other novels are austere, wildly inventive where they are introspective. A book that predates, and in many ways defines, contemporary conversations about gender and selfhood, Orlando has been claimed as a classic by readers of literary modernism, feminist criticism, and transgender studies alike. </p> <p> Read it for the wit. Stay for the century-spanning adventure. Discover why this luminous, one-of-a-kind novel has never been out of print. </p>