Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando take on the journey - a nobleman, traveller, writer? Man or- woman?' Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world.

His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. ' Orlando has always been an outsider.The source of a critically acclaimed 1993 feature film directed by Sally Potter.' en

Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman three centuries later.

' In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex.

Belle rhapsodie proustienne où scientillent les magies du souvenir.' Les temps varient, les situations se succèdent mais Orlando demeure le même ou peut-être la même puisque son corps est parfois féminin.

' Singulier roman (1928) que ce portrait vivant d'un personnage dont l'écrivain retrace les principales étapes durant trois siècles, de la Renaissance à nos jours.

' Orlando doubles as first an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in this novel that examines sex roles and social mores.'.

' Orlando doubles as first an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in this novel that examines sex roles and social mores.' en.

歐蘭多 by Virginia Woolf