Orlando: A Biography

In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon.

• The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Yale Nota Bene S)
• To the Lighthouse
• Mrs. Dalloway
• A Room of One's Own
• The Waves
• Moments of Being
• The Well of Loneliness (Wordsworth Classics)
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
• A Single Man: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)
• The Awakening (Dover Thrift Editions)