Orlando: A Biography (Annotated)

Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography is a dazzling mock-biography that follows its protagonist from the Elizabethan court to the modern age, across four centuries and a miraculous change of sex. Combining historical pastiche, lyrical prose, satire, and fantasy, Woolf transforms biography into an elastic modernist form, questioning the stability of identity, gender, authorship, and time. The novel...