A fantasy impossible but delicious an exuberance of life and wit The Times Literary SupplementFirst masculine then feminine Orlando begins life as a young sixteenthcentury nobleman then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolfs own time Written for the charismatic bisexual writer Vita SackvilleWest this playful mock biography of a chameleonlike historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and in Woolfs own words a writers holiday which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousnessEdited by Brenda Lyons with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra M Gilbert
