A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and enchanting novel,
designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. Orlando has always been
an outsider... His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him
out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from
Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he find
happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashing
explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando take on the
journey - a nobleman, traveller, writer? Man or... woman? A wry commentary
on gender and history, Orlando is also, in Woolf's own words, a light-
hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity and capriciousness.
This clothbound Penguin edition is edited by Brenda Lyons with an
introduction and notes by Sandra M. Gilbert. 'I read this book and believed
it was a hallucinogenic, interactive biography of my own life and future'
Tilda Swinton