'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and
wit' The Times Literary Supplement 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. Written for the charismatic, bisexual
writer Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a
chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender
and, in Woolf's own words, a 'writer's holiday' which delights in
its ambiguity and capriciousness. Edited by Brenda Lyons with an
Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert
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