This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• The first edition (1928) text of Orlando: A Biography, with an introduction and explanatory annotations by Madelyn Detloff, accompanied by illustrations from earlier editions.
• Provocative reviews from Woolf's contemporaries and various written materials that place Orlando within a changing epoch.
• Seven critical essays on the novel's major themes: gender, sexuality, class, feminism, and performance.
• A chronology of Woolf's life and a selected bibliography.