• Orlando

  • By: Virginia Woolf
  • Narrated by: Laura Paton
  • Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
  • Abridged Audiobook
  • Release date: 10-26-00
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3.3 (15 ratings)

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Editorial Reviews

Originally written in the late 1920's, Orlando is the fascinating and fantastic tale of an aristocratic writer and observer whose life spans several centuries. This complex story of androgyny is marvelously narrated by Laura Paton. Her velvet voice lusciously conveys Woolf's lavish and sensual prose. This audiobook is performed with unusual clarity due to Paton's unhurried delivery. Her measured, careful pace makes each word stand out. She's an excellent storyteller and her well-crafted performance makes this an outstanding listening experience. Selections from Vivaldi, Bach, Beethoven and Ravel add to the enjoyment.
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Publisher's Summary

Orlando is one of the most unforgettable creations of twentieth-century literature. He emerges as a young man at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and progresses, with breathtaking ease, through three centuries until, by now a woman, she arrives in the bustle and diversion of the 1920's.
For Virginia Woolf, a leading figure of the Bloomsbury Group, Orlando was more than a fantastic flight of imagination. It was a roman à clef, a love letter for her lover, the charismatic, eccentric, bisexual Vita Sackville West. Orlando's journey, from wondrous youth barbed by love, to feted writer, settled in her femininity, is a wild and curiously relevant fable for our times.
Download the accompanying reference guide.
(P)1994 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd.; ©1994 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd.
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4 out of 5 stars
By Kandis on 10-27-17

so many unanswered questions

As the story continued on, questions kept coming up about the plot and reasons for certain things, but none ever came. I'm sure it was intentional. but I feel like it made it too frustrating to enioy the story.

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