What Is the Story of Orlando?
Orlando is a fanciful tale of a young man who lives for three centuries—from Elizabethan times, when he has a romantic relationship with the aging queen, to the early 20th century, when he has morphed into a woman after a period of deep sleep. (Virginia Woolf published the novel in 1928 as an homage to her great love Vita Sackville-West.) Along the way, Orlando falls deeply in love with a Russian princess, becomes the British ambassador to Constantinople, marries a sea captain and becomes an award-winning poet.