"The long-lived protagonist of Orlando begins as a passionate teenage aristocrat whose days
are spent in rowdy revelry at the colorful Tudor court of Queen Elizabeth and his nights in
writing earnest poetry. A favorite of the elderly queen he falls in love with and is jilted by
a wayward Russian princess. Two kings later now in his thirties Orlando is sent to serve as
ambassador to Constantinople where he awakens one day to find himself in the body of a woman.
The Lady Orlando takes this circumstance in stride. She returns to England engages in love
affairs with both men and women consorts with the famous poets of each age finds happiness
with a gender-nonconforming husband and at last achieves publication of her own epic poem in
the year 1928. A playful and exuberant romp through history Orlando is Woolf's most
lighthearted and unusual novel."-- Provided by publisher.
