Orlando, Virginia Woolf
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Orlando

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.

Author Bio

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.

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