Orlando: A Biography
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Orlando: A Biography

By Virginia WoolfNarrated by Alexandra Coles
Length8h 42m

About this audiobook

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.

Audiobook details

GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length8 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byAlexandra Coles
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 8, 2018
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Chapter 1, part 1
10Chapter 4, part 2
2Chapter 1, part 2
11Chapter 4, part 3
3Chapter 1, part 3
12Chapter 4, part 4
4Chapter 2, part 1
13Chapter 5, part 1
5Chapter 2, part 2
14Chapter 5, part 2
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6Chapter 2, part 3
15Chapter 6, part 1
7Chapter 3, part 1
16Chapter 6, part 2
8Chapter 3, part 2
17Chapter 6, part 3
9Chapter 4, part 1
18Chapter 6, part 4
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