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Orlando - A Gender-Bending Journey Through Time Identity and Literary Innovation - cover

Orlando - A Gender-Bending Journey Through Time Identity and Literary Innovation

Virginia Woolf, Zenith Evergreen Literary Co.

Publisher: Zenith Evergreen Literary Co.

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Summary

One soul. Two genders. Four centuries.

Orlando by Virginia Woolf is a dazzling, genre-defying novel that explores gender, identity, and time through the eyes of a charismatic protagonist who begins life as a nobleman in Elizabethan England and awakens one day as a woman—continuing to live and write into the 20th century.

Inspired by Woolf's relationship with Vita Sackville-West, this novel blends biography, fantasy, and social critique with modernist wit and poetic insight. It remains a groundbreaking work in feminist, queer, and experimental literature.

💬 "Woolf's most playful and profound creation—an ode to transformation and literary freedom."

🌀 Why This Classic Still Breaks Boundaries:
A foundational text for LGBTQ+ studies, gender theory, and postmodern literature

Recommended for fans of Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, Angela Carter, and Tilda Swinton's film adaptation

An ideal pick for book clubs, classrooms, and collectors of feminist classics

📣 Reimagine Identity. Reclaim Time. Read Orlando.
Buy Orlando today and journey across the ages with literature's most fluid and fearless hero(ine).
Available since: 04/24/2025.
Print length: 114 pages.

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