Orlando: A Biography (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf)

Orlando, a novel by Virginia Woolf, is a playful and tantalizing work that provides readers with a fully collated and annotated text.

This edition includes a substantial introduction that charts the birth of the novel in the romance between Woolf and Sackville-West, as well as extensive explanatory notes that reveal the extent to which the novel is embedded in Woolf's knowledge of Sackville-West, her family history, and her writings.

The annotation of every literary and historical allusion in the text establishes its significance as a parodic literary and social history of England, as well as a spoof of one of Woolf's favorite forms, the biography.

This definitive edition offers hundreds of pages of critical apparatus, including a history of composition, explanatory notes, and textual variants.

With this product, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the novel and its significance in Woolf's oeuvre.