Bargain @ $1.99 in the US only from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Mariner Books imprint (sometimes couponable/VIP-eligible @ Kobo US; price should be the same at the usual retailers):
Orlando (Annotated) by the late Virginia Woolf (
Wikipedia), one of her classic literary fiction novels (
Wikipedia) which is a satire exploring the life and times of a genderbending immortal poet, introduced and annotated by Princeton University professor Maria diBattista (
faculty profile).
An annotated edition of “Woolf’s most intense work,” a fantastical biography that spans from the court of Elizabeth I to the year 1928 (Jorge Luis Borges).
Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, Orlando is one of Woolf's most popular and entertaining works. This new annotated edition will deepen readers' understanding of Woolf's brilliant creation. Annotated and with an introduction by Maria DiBattista