Orlando, Virginia Woolf
Orlando, Virginia Woolf
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Orlando

Author: Virginia Woolf

Narrator: Kay Elúvian

Unabridged: 9 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/04/2022

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Romance


Synopsis

Who said biography had to be based on fact? In Virginia Woolf’s semi-biographical novel, join protagonist Orlando as he travels through time and experiences key moments in British history. Born into nobility, young Orlando earns the affection of the queen through his service as an Elizabethan court page. Orlando matures and falls in love with a Russian princess, but emerges from the Great Frost of 1608 only to have his heart broken. When violent unrest threatens his post of ambassador to Constantinople, Orlando falls into a deep sleep and awakens as a woman. For anyone interested in the field of women’s & gender studies, Orlando is an important work of modernist queer fiction. In fact, the BBC named this book among the 100 most influential novels for its power to break the mold. InAudio is thrilled to release this audiobook edition as fans also await a theatre adaptation, set to open at the historic Garrick Theatre in December 2022. Come along for this epic adventure and dare to see the world a bit differently.

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

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 Emma

4.5......more

‘I contain multitudes,’ wrote the poet Walt Whitman, a nod to the contradictions and selves that bud and grow from the branches of the self as we ‘proceed to fill my next fold of the future.’ It is a fluidity of life and personhood which Virginia Woolf observes as ‘these selves of which we are built......more

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