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Tales from Spenser, Chosen from the Faerie Queene
by Sophia H. MacLehose, Edmund Spenser
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14 totalTALES FROM SPENSER CHOSEN FROM THE FAERIE QUEENE - BY SOPHIA H MACLEHOSE - PUBLISHED BY - JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, GLASGOW, Publishers to the University. - MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON AND NEW YORK. - London, Simpkin, Hamilton and Co. Cambridge, Macmillan and Bowes. Edinburgh, Douglas and Foulis. - MDCCCXCII.
PREFACE.
TALES FROM SPENSER.
Una and the Lion. - Faerie Queene. Book I. Cantos I., III., VI.
Prince Arthur helps Una to find the Red-cross Knight. - Faerie Queene. Book I. Cantos VIII., X.
How the Red-cross Knight slew the Dragon. - Faerie Queene. Book I. Cantos XI., XII.
Britomart and the Magic Mirror. - Faerie Queene. Book III. Cantos II., III.
Britomart and Amoret. - Faerie Queene. Book III. Cantos XI., XII.
The Story of Marinell and Florimell. - Faerie Queene. Book III., Cantos IV., VII., VIII.; Book IV., Canto XII.; Book V., Canto III.
Braggadochio. - Faerie Queene. Book II., Canto III.; Book III., Canto VIII.; Book IV., Cantos IV., V.; Book V., Canto III.
Description
In a land where faeries still linger among ancient forests, Queen Gloriana rules a court of enchanted knights. When a fearsome dragon seizes a royal couple, their young daughter Una sets out on a humble pilgrimage, guided by a white lamb and a dwarf, to plead for aid. At the court she is paired with a clumsy youth who, upon donning a Christian knight’s armor, transforms into the valiant Red‑cross Knight, sworn to rescue her family.
Together they venture through shadowed woods, only to be misled by the sly sorcerer Archimago, who convinces the knight that Una is an impostor and separates them. Undeterred, Una presses onward, her courage steady despite the deceptions and the looming menace of the dragon. Listeners will find themselves drawn into a tale of faith, bravery, and the first steps of an epic quest.
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en
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~3 hours (176K characters)
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Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Delphine Lettau, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2011-02-04
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the authors
Sophia H. MacLehose
d. 1912
Best known for retelling classic literature for younger readers and for writing accessible history, this Scottish author moved easily between storytelling and serious scholarship. Her books range from a child-friendly selection from The Faerie Queene to studies of the French Revolution.
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Edmund Spenser
1551–1599
Best known for The Faerie Queene, this major poet of the English Renaissance helped shape English verse with rich imagery, musical language, and a style so distinctive it gave us the term “Spenserian stanza.” His work moves between courtly ambition, moral allegory, and sheer imaginative adventure.
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