A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolfs fantastical and enchanting novel designed by the acclaimed CoralieBickford Smith. Orlando has always been an outsider...His longing for passion adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world. 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 traveller writer Man or... womanA wry commentary on gender and history Orlando is also in Woolfs own words a lighthearted writers holiday which delights in ambiguity and capriciousness. This clothbound Penguin edition is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction and notes by Sandra M. Gilbert. I read this book and believed it was a hallucinogenic interactive biography of my own life and futureTilda Swinton