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Book · 1928 · Fiction

Orlando

A Biography
Virginia Woolf
Harcourt Brace & Company · 333 pages
★ 7.0 editorial score

Orlando starts as a boy at Queen Elizabeth's court and ends as a woman in 1928 London, changing sex without fuss. Woolf wrote it for her lover Vita Sackville-West, and the joy shows.

Genre
BiographyHistorical fiction
Medium
Novel
Subject
Love affairsLiteratureSexual identityGender relations
Setting
England (United Kingdom)
Time
1928Depicts 16th century

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