Orlando A Biography Unabridged, Virginia Woolf
Orlando A Biography Unabridged, Virginia Woolf
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Orlando: A Biography - Unabridged

Author: Virginia Woolf

Narrator: Sara Nichols

Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/22/2023

Synopsis


Orlando: A Biography is a groundbreaking English novel by Virginia Woolf that explores English history, gender roles and sexual politics in a way few books have before or since. Inspired by the life of Woolf's friend and lover Vita Sackville-West - herself an accomplished poet and novelist - the story follows the life of an aristocratic nobleman who transforms from man to woman and goes on to live for centuries, meeting all of the most influential and powerful figures in English history.
An immediate sensation when it was first published, "Orlando" is easily one of Woolf's most successful and acclaimed works. It has been adapted numerous times for the stage and screen and is presented here in its original and unabridged format.

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 Carolyn Marie on August 27, 2023

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

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on December 04, 2017

Woolf did not write this book for her readers; she specifically wrote it for her close “friend” and fellow writer Vita Sackville-West. As such Woolf does things she would not normally do in her writing; it is not at all serious but instead takes on the form of a literary homage, homage to reading an......more

Goodreads review by Violet on August 06, 2017

My second reading of Orlando bore out my overriding impression the first time I read it – that this is a brilliant comic performance until Woolf, before finishing, runs out of steam. Towards the end it becomes apparent she’s no longer in the same spirit with which she began the book. What begins as......more

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