Orlando

Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer and literary critic, the leading ? gure of the modernist literature of the ? rst half of the twentieth century. She also was part of a group of English intellectuals, writers, and artists, graduates of Cambridge, called the Bloomsbury group. “Orlando” is a semi-autobiographical satirical novel based on the biography of Virginia’s friend English writer and journalist Vita Sackville-West and is considered one of Wolfe’s most light works. It tells the story of a person named Orlando. The plot covers three hundred ?fty years, starting with the reign of Elizabeth I and ending at the beginning of the twentieth century. The ?rst half of this period Orlando lives as a man and the second as a woman.