Orlando doubles first as an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in an annotated edition of the classic novel that examines sex roles and social mores. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, transformed the art of the novel. The author of numerous novels, collections of letters, journals, and short stories, she was an admired literary critic and a master of the essay form.
Mark Hussey, general editor of Harcourt's new annotated Woolf series, is professor of English and women's and gender studies, and editor of the Woolf Studies Annual, at Pace University. He lives in Upper Nyack, New York.