Orlando (Collins Classics)

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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 Woolfs 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 Orlandos 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 womens fiction. Sexuality, destiny, independence and desire all come to the fore in this highly influential novel that heralded a new era in womens writing.

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Undoubtedly one of the most singular novels of our era
Jorge Luis Borges

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Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, short story writer, publisher, critic and member of the Bloomsbury group, as well as being regarded as both a hugely significant modernist and feminist figure. Her most famous works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of Ones Own.