Orlando (Pan Macmillan)

Orlando is a young Elizabethan nobleman whose wealth and status afford him an extravagant lifestyle. Appointed ambassador in Constantinople, he wakes one morning to find he is a woman. Unperturbed żeby such a dramatic transformation, and losing none of his flamboyance and ambition, the newly female Orlando charges through life and English history so that żeby the end of this extraordinary biography she is a modern, 1920s woman. Virginia Woolf's wildly imaginative, comic novel was inspired aby the life of her lover, Vita Sackville West. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Orlando is published with the original illustrations and with an introduction aby the academic and novelist, Dr Susan Sellers.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.