Orlando - A Norton Critical Edition

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• The first edition (1928) text of Orlando: A Biography, with an introduction and explanatory annotations by Madelyn Detloff, accompanied by illustrations from earlier editions.


• Provocative reviews from Woolf's contemporaries and various written materials that place Orlando within a changing epoch.


• Seven critical essays on the novel's major themes: gender, sexuality, class, feminism, and performance.


• A chronology of Woolf's life and a selected bibliography.

About the author

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was the world-renowned author of Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, among other works.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Woolf
• Assisted by: Madelyn Detloff (Editor), Detloff Madelyn (Editor)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781324044369
• ISBN: 978-1-324-04436-9
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 213 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 280 g
• Series: Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Children's & teenage literature studies, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBTQ+, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, Classic fiction: general and literary