Orlando Author:Virginia Wolf Spanning three and a half centuries of boisterous, exuberant adventure in England, in Constantinople, with aristocrats and gypsies—first as a man, then as a woman– Orlando’s story is a wild farce, a humorous history, a gay romance filled with the delightful experiences of one of the most fascinating and fantastic characters ever to rule the real... more »m of fiction. David Daiches said: "Virginia Woolf can afford to rest her claims on her novels, which show her to be one of the half-dozen novelists of the present century whom the world will not easily let die." Rebecca West called Orlando ‘a poetic masterpiece of the first rank’ and Elizabeth Bowen found it ‘one of the most high-spirited books I know . . . A book for those who are young in a big way.’« less