Orlando

<p>One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'</p><p>HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics.</p><p>'The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme the young translated into practice.'</p><p>Written for her lover Vita Sackville-West 'Orlando' is Woolf's playfully subversive take on a biography here tracing the fantastical life of Orlando. As the novel spans centuries and continents gender and identity we follow Orlando's adventures in love - from being a lord in the Elizabethan court to a lady in 1920s London.</p><p>First published in 1928 this tale of unrivalled imagination and wit quickly became the most famous work of women's fiction. Sexuality destiny independence and desire - all come to the fore in this highly influential novel that heralded a new era in women's writing.</p>