PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS : ORLANDO – VIRGINIA WOOLF-SANDRA GILBERT

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