Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the central protagonists. 'To the Lighthouse' is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. 'Orlando', 'the longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Deluxe binding in cloth with gold tooling and inset colour plate on front cover. 1024 pages.