As his tale begins， Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry， filled with the colorful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern， 36-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge， but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.
Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. After her father's death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the center of ‘The Bloomsbury Group’. This informal collective of artists and writers exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture.
In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social r...