The young nobleman Orlando is the favorite of Elizabeth I. His days are spent in the boisterous revelry of the royal court, and on her deathbed, the queen asks him to remain forever young. In search of adventure and himself, Orlando pursues his dream through the centuries: Elizabethan England, King Charles I's embassy to Constantinople, travels with a gypsy camp, and his return to early twentieth-century England. 'Orlando' is Woolf's signature work, the golden mean of her unique literary style. The story of an immortal, ageless man who easily changes not only eras and countries, but even his own gender.