OrlandoOne of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best loved, essential classics. Orlando had become a woman there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity. Boisterous and defiant, Virginia Woolfs queer classic subverts restraints of genre, time and gender.