Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141198524 ISBN 13: 9780141198521

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2011

A brand new series of five of Woolf's major works, in beautifully designed hardback editions.

Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic, bisexual writers Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleon-like historical figure who changes sex and identity at will. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time.

A wry commentary on gender roles and modes of history, Orlando is also, in Woolf's own words, a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.

Product Description:

Edition Penguin Classics, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-141-19852-1. With an Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert. Text edited by Sandra Lyons. 336 pages, size:13.8 x 3.2 x 20.4 cm. The new and unread book remains intact. Immaculate throughout. Text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from UK.

Review:

A fantasy, impossible but delicious...an exuberance of life and wit ( The Times Literary Supplement)