Orlando

Virginia Woolf's Orlando is a brilliantly inventive mock-biography that follows its hero from the Elizabethan age into the twentieth century, crossing centuries, social worlds, and even gender. At once playful and profound, the novel blends fantasy, satire, historical pastiche, and lyrical prose to question the stability of identity, authorship, and time itself. Written in the high modernist period, Orlando departs from strict realism while retaining Woolf's characteristic psychological subtlet ...