Orlando

Name: Orlando
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9789629546168

Author: Virginia Woolf

Narrator: Laura Paton

Abridged: 2 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 08/01/2000

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Orlando is one of the most unforgettable creations of twentieth-century literature. He emerges as a young man at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and progresses, with breathtaking ease, through three centuries until, by now a woman, she arrives in the bustle and diversion of the 1920s. For Virginia Woolf, a leading figure of the Bloomsbury Group, Orlando was more than a fantastic flight of imagination. It was a roman a clef, a love letter for her lover, the charismatic, eccentric bisexual, Vita Sackville West. Orlando’s journey, from wondrous youth barbed by love, to feted writer, settled in her femininity, is a wild and curiously relevant fable for our times.

About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist, and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. In 1917, she and her husband founded the Hogarth Press, which published the work of T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Katherine Mansfield, as well as the earliest translations of Sigmund Freud. Her major novels include Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves, The Years, and Between the Acts. She is also the author of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob's Room, A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly on September 10, 2016

My mom made me clean my room this weekend. No, not a teenage pain-in-the-ass cleaning of the room, this was THE cleaning of the room. As in, it was finally time to take apart the room I’d had in that house since we moved there somewhere around my thirteenth birthday. Look you guys, I get it. I’m twe......more

Goodreads review by Emma on August 25, 2023

4.5......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on February 25, 2025

‘I contain multitudes,’ wrote the poet Walt Whitman, a nod to the contradictions and selves that bud and grow from the branches of the self as we ‘proceed to fill my next fold of the future.’ It is a fluidity of life and personhood which Virginia Woolf observes as ‘these selves of which we are built......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn Marie on August 27, 2023

One of the most beautifully written and unique stories I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading.......more