Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 0140185674

COVER: Paperback 13cm x 19.5cm 

PAGES: 273

CONDITION: Good: light shelf and reading wear, light page tanning.

c1928 4th Penguin edition 1993

WEIGHT: 430g (parcel rate)

Edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction and notes by Sandra M Gilbert.

'You have invented a new form of Narcissism, - I confess, - I am in love with Orlando - this is a complication I had not forseen'

wrote Vita Sackville-West to the author, Sliding in and out of three centuries, and slipping between genders, Orlando is a sparkling incarnation of Vita's personalility as Viginia Woolf saw it. Described by Bernard Blackstone as 'First masculine, then feminine, first love, and then loved; first jilting and then jilted, a man of action, a poet, a woman of fashion and a Victorian lady', Orlando triumphs over anatomy in her ability to choose her own sexual destiny. Clever witty, ornate, a shade mocking and brilliantly perceptive, it is a delight to read.

Thanks for your interest.