Orlando lives through four centuries and many disguises. He is page ot Queen Elizabeth I, beau at the Court of King James, Ambassador to the pompous palaces of constatinople. There, he undergoes a miraculous transformation. While revolution explodes around him he sleeps--for days--a dn finds on waking that he has become a woman. Orlando as a woman is as beautiful, sensuous and unfashionably irrepressible as when she was a man. Times change, but Orlando's youth is unceasing. Though the Wits of the eighteenth century bore her to tears and the crinolines of the nineteensth threaten to engulf her, Orlando bursts into the twentieth century still full of energy and irreverence. Orlando stands history on its venerable head and rewrites literature with wit, vigour and exuberance. - from Amzon