The title figure of this work is an aspiring poet, and always carries one unfinished poem called "The Oak Tree".
The title figure of this work is an aspiring poet, and always carries one unfinished poem called "The Oak Tree". A chance meeting with Shakespeare haunts the title figure throughout this novel, while the greatest change in that character's life occurs in Constantinople. On the same night as a great flood of the Thames, the protagonist is betrayed by a Russian princess named Sasha, while later the protagonist is pursued by the Archduchess Harriet, who is revealed to be a Romanian nobleman named Harry. After living for three hundred years, the title figure marries Shelmerdine in, FTP, this Virginia Woolf novel, a fictional biography of the title figure, who begins life as a man but unexplainedly becomes a woman.
The title figure of this work is an aspiring poet, and always carries one unfinished poem called "The Oak Tree".
{Orlando}