Orlando
- author
- Virginia Woolf
- Narrator
- Pippa Nixon
- Length
- 8 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Catalogue #
- 21101
- Categories
- 20th Century Classics
- Ratings
- 0 star rating
Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando, is a playful mock biography of a chameleonic historical figure, immortal and ageless, who changes sex and identity on a whim. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. A wry commentary on gender roles and modes of history, Orlando is also, in Woolf's own words, a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity and capriciousness.