Virginia Woolf - Orlando

New translation, faithful to the original text, which re-proposes its essence and recovers its illustrations. "As soon as Orlando opened the window, his face was illuminated only by the sun itself, and it would certainly have been impossible to find another so sincere—or so melancholic. Happy is the mother who gives birth to such a son, and even happier is the biographer who narrates his life! Because you will never have to worry and go asking a poet or a novelist for help.

For such a subject, it is enough to go from feat to feat, from triumph to triumph, from position to position, and the scribe only has to follow him, and both will reach the heights they desire!"

"I wrote this book faster than any other, and it's a great joke; I think, nevertheless, that it is a cheerful and easy read: a vacation from being a writer."

These are the words found in one of Virginia Woolf's diary entries, dated March 18, 1928, with which the author refers to her then recently finished Orlando: a book written in one breath—in the brief span of five months—that aimed to be light, fun, absolutely satirical and, above all, free. A work geared towards modernity, towards the future, Orlando is one of the rare moments in which literature, breaking barriers and the prudishness of an era, achieves timelessness, never again feeling dated or outdated in its courage, beauty and style.

Recovering the spirit in which it was written—to be both reading and entertainment—Cavalo de Ferro re-releases, with a new translation faithful to the text and original illustrations, one of Virginia Woolf's great novels, shaking off the dust and the weight of its status in the history of Literature.