Virginia Woolf’s pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes
up in the body of a woman with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor author of Paul Takes the Form
of a Mortal Girl “A brilliant book that teaches you so much about identity and love—all
these fundamental questions that we ask ourselves.” —Emma Corrin “I read this book and
believed it was a hallucinogenic interactive biography of my own life and future.” —Tilda
Swinton A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper First masculine
then feminine Orlando is a young sixteenth-century nobleman who gallops through the centuries
from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to Virginia Woolf’s own time. 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 traveler writer? Man or
. . . woman? Written for the charismatic bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West Orlando is
one of Woolf’s most popular and accessible novels a playful mock biography of a chameleon-like
historical figure that is both a wry commentary on gender and in Woolf’s own words a
“writer’s holiday” that delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness. This edition is collated
from all known proofs manuscripts and impressions to reflect the author’s intentions and
includes an introduction and notes by the distinguished scholar and coauthor of The Madwoman in
the Attic Sandra M. Gibert. For more than seventy-five years Penguin has been the leading
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