Description
WHERE GENDER AND HISTORY SHIFT • A playful yet profound story for anyone who has ever questioned identity, time, or belonging.
Orlando is born an Elizabethan nobleman. Handsome, wealthy, restless. He lives for poetry and adventure. But one day, Orlando undergoes a miraculous change—waking as a woman, destined to live on for centuries. From the splendour of Shakespeare’s England to the salons of eighteenth-century Europe and the bustling streets of modern London, Orlando moves through history, confronting love, art, and the shifting boundaries of gender and self.
First published in 1928, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando defies every convention. Playful yet profound, it blends fantasy, biography, and social satire into a narrative unlike any other. Inspired by Woolf’s friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, the novel is at once a tribute, a meditation on time, and a radical exploration of gender fluidity long before the term existed. Few lines capture its spirit better than Woolf’s playful declaration: “Orlando was a man till the age of thirty; when he became a woman and has remained so ever since.”
This Feel Classics edition presents Woolf’s boldest and most inventive novel in a format designed for today’s readers. Featuring a thoughtful introduction, explanatory notes, glossary, and a detailed chronology of her life and works, it is ideal for students, first-time readers, and literature enthusiasts alike.
A daring, unforgettable classic that still speaks to anyone who has ever questioned identity, time, and the freedom to be oneself.
