Orlando: Virginia Woolf

`The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.`
Written for her lover Vita Sackville-West, `Orlando` is Woolf`s playfully subversive take on a biography, here tracing the fantastical life of Orlando. As the novel spans centuries and continents, gender and identity, we follow Orlando`s adventures in love - from being a lord in the Elizabethan court to a lady in 1920s London.
First published in 1928, this tale of unrivalled imagination and wit quickly became the most famous work of women`s fiction. Sexuality, destiny, independence and desire - all come to the fore in this highly influential novel that heralded a new era in women`s writing.