Orlando · Virginia Woolf (The Collector's Library)Virginia Woolfs wildly imaginative, comic novel was inspired by the life of her lover, Vita Sackville West. Orlando is a young Elizabethan nobleman whose wealth and status afford him an extravagant lifestyle. Appointed ambassador in Constantinople, he wakes one morning to find he is a woman. Unperturbed by such a dramatic transformation, and losing none of his flamboyance and ambition, the newly female Orlando charges through life and English history

appoint themselves leaders and what begins as a supposedly equalitarian community descends into an increasingly violent and hierarchical society permeated by lies and corruption

including a biographical timeline with historical images and a detailed profile of the mathematician's life

This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of On the Origin of Species is complete and unabridged

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The Happy Prince and The Star Child

young Farrokh dreamt of having a fabulous life

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he seeks vengeance on his creator

After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros

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Spurred by his longing to escape