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Orlando

Virginia Woolf (1928)

Subgenre
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages226 (Quick Read (<250))
SettingHistorical Earth
CSM age16
Goodreads3.87/5 (117845)

Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentMild
LanguageMild

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Synopsis

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

Is Orlando appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 16 and up.

Orlando is a literary novel spanning centuries and exploring gender identity and transformation through a fantastical lens; it contains mild romantic content and no graphic violence or explicit material.

What to know going in

This book has mild violence, mild sexual content, and mild language.

Who'll love this

A witty and imaginative classic about a person who lives for centuries and changes gender, exploring what it means to be yourself.

Tags

literary fictionmagical realismgender studieshistorical fantasysatirical fiction