One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Virginia Woolf's wildly imaginative comic novel
was inspired by the life of her lover Vita Sackville West. Part of the Macmillan Collector's
Library a series of stunning clothbound pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and
ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This
edition features original illustrations and with an introduction by the academic and novelist
Professor Susan Sellers.Orlando is a young Elizabethan nobleman whose wealth and status afford
him an extravagant lifestyle. Appointed ambassador in Constantinople he wakes one morning to
find he is a woman. Unperturbed by such a dramatic transformation and losing none of his
flamboyance and ambition the newly female Orlando charges through life and English history so
that by the end of this extraordinary biography she is a modern 1920s woman.
