ORLANDO

A young nobleman lives for centuries, changes sex, crosses eras, and discovers that identity is never as fixed as the world would have us believe. Orlando follows its extraordinary title character from the Elizabethan age into the twentieth century, moving through centuries of English history in a story that is witty, playful, philosophical, and unlike almost anything else in modern literature. As Orlando moves through different roles, relationships, social expectations, and historical periods, Virginia Woolf explores identity, gender, love, creativity, class, memory, and the passage of time. The novel shifts between biography, fantasy, satire, romance, and literary experiment with remarkable freedom. Complete and unabridged, Orlando remains one of Woolf’s most inventive and enduring works: imaginative, elegant, humorous, provocative, and central to the modernist tradition.