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Fantasy, love and an exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining story. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to the family of her friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando's central character, a fictional embodiment of Sackville-West, changes sex from a man to a woman and lives throughout the centuries, whilst meeting historical figures of English literature.

At the beginning of Virginia Woolf's fantastical and satirical 1928 novel, Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan, England. At the age of 30, Orlando awakens to have found he's now a woman. Moving through the following centuries, the novel stretches over 300 years, during which time Orlando meets several key figures of English literary history.

Published in 1928, Orlando is a fictional biography that spans several centuries and follows the protagonist, Orlando, an Elizabethan nobleman who undergoes a mysterious gender transformation. The novel explores themes of gender identity, fluidity and the constraints imposed by societal norms. It challenges traditional notions of gender roles and raises questions about the nature of identity and the passage of time.

Mrs. Dalloway è il primo grande romanzo di Virginia Woolf, pubblicato nel 1925. Nell'arco di una sola giornata i fili invisibili delle emozioni uniscono...

Ante la enormidad de la vida, con sus largos años y su final que pareciera que nunca llegará, ¿qué nos motiva a vivirla? Cuando un viaje prometido de una madre a un hijo se ve aplazado en el tiempo, movida desde el futuro cercano a la perpetuidad, ¿Qué se siente saber que el viaje nunca llegará? La residencia Ramsay conocerá la muerte y la pérdida a medida que venga. Son aspectos inseparables de la vida, pero a la vez lo son el amor y la euforia de conocerse a sí mismo en el transcurso de los años.

Orlando is the extraordinary biography of a young nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I who transforms into a woman and lives for over three centuries. In his youth, Orlando is a passionate lover and poet. He dotes on the Queen, serves King James faithfully, falls deeply in love with a Russian princess, and becomes an ambassador to Constantinople, but at his heart all Orlando ever wants to be is a great writer (and living at the same time as Marlowe, Donne, and Shakespeare, this is no easy thing). But while living in Constantinople, one evening Orlando is transformed into woman.

Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1928, "Orlando" ("Orlando: A Biography") è la straordinaria cronaca della vita del protagonista che si sviluppa nel corso di quattro secoli. L'elemento centrale del romanzo è quindi Orlando, personaggio androgino dal sesso certo ma in evoluzione. La sua esistenza fantastica, spesso assolutamente libera da qualsiasi schema, anche sessuale, attraversa il XVII, il XVIII, e il XIX secolo, e riporta un lucido e interessante resoconto della società inglese dell'epoca.