ORLANDO - Wordsworth Classics

Virginia Woolf's close friend, Vita Sackville-West, was the model for the androgynous hero of Orlando. The deliberately fanciful story spans a period from the 16th to the 20th centuries and takes the hero, Orlando, from being a handsome boy of 16, through encounters with Elizabeth I to a love affair with a Muscovite princess; form Ambassador Extraordinary to encounters, now as Lady Orlando, with Pope, Addison and Swift, and Childbirth. Orlando is a brilliantly perceptive and delicious fantasy containing many valuable historical insights and is a joy to read.