Description:
"Virginia Woolf's Orlando can be daunting for new and experienced readers alike, but its pleasures await those willing to immerse themselves in this elusive and highly allusive text. This much-needed and long-awaited edition will prove a boon to readers, offering both useful textual annotations and informative contextual readings. Madelyn Detloff's critical selections help to make this challenging text more accessible and provide an instructive framework for gaining a greater understanding of Woolf's gender- and genre-bending novel."
--Ana R. Rojas, University of San Francisco
"The Norton Critical Edition of Orlando is a tour de force, guiding readers through the dazzling world of Virginia Woolf's novel with a range of important critical perspectives and their relevant archives. Detloff's brilliant editorial vision tackles some of the most difficult topics surrounding Orlando and its adaptations across media, while doing justice to the ongoing revelations inspired by Woolf's most audacious masterpiece."
--Amy E. Elkins, Macalester College
Brief description: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was the world-renowned author of Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, among other works.