Orlando
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  • Published: 31 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448139026
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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Orlando

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7 Jan 2025
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9 Oct 2020
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4 Jun 2019
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1 Feb 2005
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20 Feb 2024
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14 Nov 2016
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2 Jan 2024
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31 Jul 2012
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27 Oct 2000
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6 Feb 2024
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22 Oct 2024
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Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.

Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.

The Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf series has been curated by Jeanette Winterson and Margaret Reynolds, and the texts used are based on the original Hogarth Press editions published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
  • Published: 31 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448139026
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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About the author

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

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Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
A Room of One's Own
To the Lighthouse
The Years
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
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Praise for Orlando

Orlando has sometimes been dismissed as a romp. As a less important book than Mrs Dalloway or To the Lighthouse. This is to misread it. It was far ahead of its time in terms of gender politics and gender progress

Jeanette Winterson

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

Orlando is the wittiest little book, a pleasure: it makes me laugh every time I read it

Undoubtedly Virginia Woolf's most intense and one of the most singular [novels] of our era