Orlando
by Virginia Woolf
The thrill of reading Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" is the feeling of looking at the vortex, just as something absolutely extraordinary first happened: an exciting hallucination of surreal and beautiful images that remain in your memory long after you drop the book. Orlando has it all: life, death, immortality, homoerotic desire, lesbianism, and avoidance. Love, fear, loneliness, death and time travel - objects float like umbrellas in the rain. Orlando can be found on numerous lists of the best novels of the 20th century and is one of Virginia Woolf's main achievements. It is considered one of his greatest works after Mrs. Dalloway and "To the Lighthouse".
