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Orlando

The Illustrated Edition
By Virginia Woolf
Series: Faber Illustrated Classics
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Virginia Woolf's dazzling, time-defying novel of love, identity and transformation, brought to life with breathtaking interior art by Varvara Alay. Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In every human being, a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only... Read More
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Virginia Woolf's dazzling, time-defying novel of love, identity and transformation, brought to life with breathtaking interior art by Varvara Alay.

Virginia Woolf's dazzling, time-defying novel of love, identity and transformation, brought to life with breathtaking interior art by Varvara Alay.

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Virginia Woolf's dazzling, time-defying novel of love, identity and transformation, brought to life with breathtaking interior art by Varvara Alay.

Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In every human being, a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above.

Orlando is a charming nobleman, a poet, and a vessel through which truth is exposed. Born in Elizabethan England, his life spans across centuries. He observes the shifting landscapes of history and time, noting these changes as they come. But one morning, he transforms into a woman.

What begins as a fantastical romp through time becomes a profound meditation on gender, freedom, and the fluidity of identity. With wit, lyricism and dazzling imagination, Orlando crafts a gender-defying portrait of a soul unbound by society's labels - a bold rebellion against life's binaries that remains radically modern today.

Series: Faber Illustrated Classics

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571395682

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 May 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Varvara Alay

Audience: General / adult, Children, Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 256

Collections

Children’s, Teenage and Educational Classic Fiction Classic General Fiction Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Series: Faber Illustrated Classics Virginia Woolf Young Adult

About the Author

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer and one of the most distinguished 20th Century modernist authors. Her novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre.

Varvara Alay is a graphic designer and illustrator, whose distinctive style is defined by surrealist motifs, bold colours and abstract shapes. She invents highly detailed and endlessly fascinating worlds that blend fantasy and realism in an intricate web of elaborate characters and majestic patterns.

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