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Transcendent journey through gender and history.

Orlando isn't just a book; it's a kaleidoscope of identity and time. Reading it feels like a whimsical dance through centuries, where gender and norms are mere costumes to try on and discard. It's a timeless romance with self-exploration, written with Virginia Woolf's sharp wit and poetic grace. If you're looking to be swept into a narrative that defies convention and celebrates the fluidity of being, this is for you.

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ISBN: 9780141184272
Publisher: Modern Classics
Date of Publication: 2000-10-03
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Classics, Feminism, LGBTQ+
Goodreads rating: 3.87
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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 Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now 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.
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Transcendent journey through gender and history.

Orlando isn't just a book; it's a kaleidoscope of identity and time. Reading it feels like a whimsical dance through centuries, where gender and norms are mere costumes to try on and discard. It's a timeless romance with self-exploration, written with Virginia Woolf's sharp wit and poetic grace. If you're looking to be swept into a narrative that defies convention and celebrates the fluidity of being, this is for you.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.