1928High Modernism
Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 1882–1941 · England
Why it matters
A poet lives four centuries and changes sex halfway: Woolf's love letter to Vita Sackville-West and her most playful book. Gender as costume, biography as joke: it grows more contemporary every year.
At a glance
speculative fictionsatirehistorical fiction
Difficulty 5/10medium pace336 pagesPlayful mock-biographical voice, though its shifting centuries and gender require tracking.
