Orlando

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 details

• Authors: Virginia Woolf
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.11.2011
• EAN: 9780141198521
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119852-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 204 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature