Orlando: A Biography.

WOOLF, Virginia.

Item Number: 104996

London: The Hogarth Press, 1928.

First edition of Woolf’s immensely popular feminist classic. Octavo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece portrait of Orlando as a boy, illustrated with engravings. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition with an original publisher’s wraparound band which was issued separately.

Woolf is considered to be one of the greatest twentieth century novelists and one of the pioneers among modernist writers using stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Following her 1912 marriage to Leonard Woolf, the couple founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, which published much of her work. Arguably one of Woolf's most popular novels, Orlando describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies and has been adapted a number of times for stage and screen.