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Book Summary
Orlando is a landmark historical biography by Virginia Woolf that follows a poet who begins life as a man and, across centuries, becomes a woman. A feminist classic that challenges Victorian hypocrisy while celebrating creativity, it speaks to adults and students of literature who crave daring storytelling and ideas about gender, identity, and love. The tone blends wit, wonder, and emotional depth, inviting readers to rethink what a life can be.
Woolf's luminous voice threads time with humor and insight, weaving biography with elements of fantasy as Orlando moves through ages and cultures. The book's structure feels like a single, expansive life—one that refuses to be confined by history or convention. Readers will enjoy the sly social critique, the lush descriptions, and the way the narrative treats love, art, and self-discovery as intertwined journeys.
Though anchored in a biographical frame, Orlando unfolds as a fearless voyage of identity. The protagonist's timeless path offers a sharp look at how gender, sexuality, and desire are understood—and sometimes constrained—by the societies they inhabit. Woolf's playful prose, reflective humor, and keen social intelligence turn literature into a living conversation with the past and present.
After finishing Orlando, readers are left with a sense of possibility—the enduring resilience of the human spirit and the power of storytelling to reshape identity. It invites readers to think differently about gender, time, and art, and to carry that sense of curiosity into every page they turn.
Product Details
Author
Virginia Woolf
Publisher
Rupa Publications
Number of Pages
237
Language
English
SKU
BK0495121
ISBN
9789357022972
Reading Age
All
Binding
Paperback
MRP: ₹ 295
₹ 250
15% Off
Virginia Woolf, Born On 25 January 1882, Was One Of The Most Inventive Authors Of The Twentieth Century. Though Mrs Dalloway (1925) And To Theighthouse (1927) Are Perhaps Her Best-Known Works, She Was Also A Prolific Writer Of Essays, Diaries, Correspondence And Biographies. Woolf ’S Writing Depicts The Rapidly Evolving World In Which She Wasiving In Both Style And Subject Matter. She Struggled With Mental Illness Throughout Herife And Attempted Suicide Twice Before Drowning Herself In River Ouse On 28 March 1941.