# Orlando — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Orlando by Virginia Woolf.

- [Dedication](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orlando_se/chapters/dedication.md): The book is dedicated to V. Sackville-West, acknowledging her as the inspiration and muse for the work.
- [Orlando](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orlando_se/chapters/orlando.md): The biography of Orlando begins with his early life as a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, exploring his love for poetry, his encounter with Queen Elizabeth, and his passionate affair with the Russian princess Sasha
- [Frontispiece](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orlando_se/chapters/frontispiece.md): The frontispiece introduces Orlando as a boy, setting the stage for his early life and adventures.
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orlando_se/chapters/i.md): The chapter introduces Orlando as a sixteen-year-old nobleman in Elizabethan England, who practices swordplay in his attic, encounters a poet, and is kissed by Queen Elizabeth I. It explores his youthful passions, his lo
- [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orlando_se/chapters/ii.md): Orlando, disgraced at court and grieving, retreats into extreme solitude in his ancestral home. He wanders the vast, haunted house, contemplating death and decay. His servants worry but respect him. He continues writing 

> 6 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=orlando_4917kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orlando_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orlando_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [Chapter V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orlando_se/chapters/v.md)
- [Chapter VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orlando_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [List of Illustrations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orlando_se/chapters/list-of-illustrations.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/orlando_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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