Publisher's Synopsis
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The first edition (1928) text of Orlando: A Biography, with an introduction and explanatory annotations by Madelyn Detloff, accompanied by illustrations from earlier editions.
- Provocative reviews from Woolf's contemporaries and various written materials that place Orlando within a changing epoch.
- Seven critical essays on the novel's major themes: gender, sexuality, class, feminism, and performance.
- A chronology of Woolf's life and a selected bibliography.
