Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Orlando is Virginia Woolf’s imaginative and playful novel about a young nobleman who mysteriously lives for centuries and changes from male to female during the course of the story. Moving through different periods of English history, Orlando experiences love, ambition, literature, society, and shifting ideas about gender and identity. Woolf blends fantasy, biography, satire, and historical fiction to question traditional expectations surrounding sex, time, and personal freedom. Rich in wit and poetic language, the novel challenges fixed definitions of identity while celebrating transformation and self-discovery. It remains one of Woolf’s most original and influential works.