About the Book: Collins Classics — Orlando
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential
classics. 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