Orlando in the Cities

A masterful blend of everything literature and history enthusiasts will love.- OnlineBookClub.orgWith a delicious blend of prose verse and poetic syntax author Sebastian Michael takes you on a wild rollercoaster spread across two millennia through monumental events that changed the course of history. ... Highly recommended.- Pikasho Deka Readers Favourite (5 Stars)Orlando beautiful though lazy shepherd boy on Crete is tasked by the gods to settle a dispute: who among them is patron of the most perfect city. His journey takes him to Alexandria where he studies under Euclid to Florence where he sits for a portrait by Leonardo da Vinci to London where he falls in love with a Russian princess; then having inexplicably but assuredly turned woman to Paris where she joins the womens march on Versailles then to Vienna where she chooses to dress as a man while making the acquaintance of among others a curious Dr Freud and a very young Ludwig Wittgenstein and finally now once again as a man though experimenting with drag to New York where he experiences the creative as well as destructive forces around Warhols Factory; before ultimately timeless ageless and without gender or agenda Orlando becomes simply Orlando.A playful literary odyssey through 2500 years of Western civilisation.