Orlando, A Biography (version 3)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jan 4, 2025

In Category - Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

Authors: Virginia Woolf In Year : 1928

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Orlando, A Biography (version 3)

Preface
Chapter 1: Orlando slices at the head of a Moor
Chapter 1: Orlando attends Queen Elizabeth
Chapter 1: Clorinda, Favilla, Euphrosyne
Chapter 1: The Thames freezes over
Chapter 1: Sasha and Orlando skate down river
Chapter 1: Betrayed by his lover!
Chapter 2: Orlando sleeps for a week
Chapter 2: Orlando becomes a poet
Chapter 2: An invitation to Mr. Nicholas Greene
Chapter 2: Orlando burns his poetry...
Chapter 2: ...and improves his country house
Chapter 2: Orlando flees the Archduchess
Chapter 3: Ambassador at Constantinople
Chapter 3: Orlando is presented with the Order of the Bath
Chapter 3: Orlando sleeps through an insurrection
Chapter 3: Life among the gypsies
Chapter 4: Captain Bartolus presses Orlando to a shiver of beef
Chapter 4: The Enamoured Lady arrives in London...
Chapter 4: ...where her estates are put in Chancery
Chapter 4: The Archduchess returns as the Archduke
Chapter 4: Thoughts on the differences between the sexes
Chapter 4: Orlando is launched on London society
Chapter 4: Mr. Pope makes three witty remarks
Chapter 4: Orlando pours tea for Addison, Pope and Swift
Chapter 4: Orlando drops a sugar cube into Mr. Pope's tea
Chapter 4: Orlando makes a friend in Leicester Square
Chapter 5: Fog and crinolines
Chapter 5: Orlando yields to the spirit of the age
Chapter 5: Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, Esquire
Chapter 6: She wrote. She wrote. She wrote.
Chapter 6: The biographer asks, 'What is life?'
Chapter 6: 'The Oak Tree' is done!
Chapter 6: Lunch with Sir Nicholas Greene
Chapter 6: A paper boat on the Serpentine
Chapter 6: A great event
Chapter 6: The present moment
Chapter 6: Orlando's many selves
Chapter 6: Orlando returns to her country house
Chapter 6: A wild goose!
Index

Virginia Woolf's most successful novel recounts the extraordinary biography of Orlando from his youth in the reign of Elizabeth I to her life as a successful author and mother in 1928, the year of the book's publication. Over the 350 years of his/her life, Orlando loves and is betrayed by a Russian princess, serves as British ambassador to Constantinople, changes sex, lives among gypsies, narrowly escapes marriage to the Archduchess Harriet/Archduke Harry, enjoys the society of Addison, Dryden and Pope, and finally marries Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmardine with whom she has a child. Over the same 350 years, Orlando struggles with her love of writing, finally publishing her poem 'The Oak Tree', begun in the 1500s, in the 1920s. Along the way, Orlando and her biographer spend much time and energy pondering on the craft of writing and the differences between the sexes. Woolf's mock biography, complete with scholarly preface and index, was loosely based on the family history of Vita Sackville-West, her country house in Kent, and her poem 'The Land'. The book is divided into six long chapters, which I have divided into shorter scenes for this audiobook. I have given each scene a descriptive title, but listeners should note that these titles do not appear in Woolf's text, nor did she give any indication of divisions within the chapters. (Summary by Phil Benson)