Fantasy, lover offering, exuberant celebration of English life and literature, ORLANDO is a uniquely entertaining novel. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to Vita Sackville - West, ORLANDOs central character lives both as a man and a woman through four centuries. With an introduction by Quentin Bell, this definitive edition contains the original Hogarth Press text as overseen by the author, the illustrations which appeared in the first edition of ORLANDO in 1928, and a list of textual variants that appeared during her lifetime.