Knights Of The Faery Queen Their Quests And Adventures

This volume contains 39 stories of quests and adventures which the Knights of the Faery Queen undertake to prove their abilities and worthiness. Full of action and adventure, the quests the knights undertake are accompanied by 34 full-page colour illustrations. Herein you will find the heroes and heroines like Britomart, Sir Artegall, the Lady Una and her lion, Florimell, Pastorella, Tristram, Sir Calepine and the Lady Serena plus many more. Each on a quest to answer a burning question or a dilemma they face which they need to overcome. Some of the stories in this volume are: The Red-Cross Knight – a women with the heart and armour of a man. And she fights like a man as well. The Fortunes of Una – how she faced and tamed her fear. What befell at the House of Pride - and what the Red Cross Knight did to help it fall. The Giant Orgoglio – and how the Red Cross Knight overcame a person thrice his size. The Deeds of (the young) Prince Arthur. Sir Calidore and (the beautiful) Pastorella, and many more. The book is a reworking of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem “Stories from the Faery Queen” into a Y.A. novel. Just like Spenser’s poem the work is an allegory of good versus evil and each of the quests or adventures portray a “fight” young people will have to face at some point in their life. Hidden within the quests, the action and adventure are the life lessons to better equip young people before they venture into the wide world of life. What actually happens on these quests and adventures you ask? Well you’ll just have to download this book and find out for yourself!

Follows the adventures of twelve knights, each an example of a different virtue, as they undertake difficult quests for their queen.

The Fairy Queen is a famous epic poem by the English poet Edmund Spenser. It tells the story of the knights of the court of Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, and their various quests and adventures. The poem is a masterpiece of allegory and symbolism, and reflects the spiritual and moral ideals of the Renaissance era. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This book analyzes the Faerie Queene's setting, examining Spenser's quest structures and his ideas about epic, romance, and history. Critics almost invariably treat Spenser's Faeryland as coextensive with the world of the poem, but this is not the case; rather, Faeryland is part of an epic cosmos reaching from heaven and the abode of the classical deities to demonic underground realms. Spenser situates Faeryland within a specific spatial and temporal terrestrial geography in which locations outside Faeryland represent various heroic settings in political history. The politico-historical world built around Faeryland is ripe for analysis by contemporary historicist critics. Spenser uses political geography, in conjunction with the time-inclusive medium of Faeryland, to coordinate several transhistorical quests that create a pattern of temporal mediations among sixth-century British, 16th-century English, and biblical and prophetic versions of history. He juxtaposes chronicle history, empirical historiography, and cultural myth while manipulating genre to create a world capable of accommodating his grand romantic epic design. In mapping the world of The Faerie Queene, the book provides a widened context for Spenser's quest structures, a significant contribution to the study of the poem's relation to history, and a new perspective from which to view Spenser's debts to classical epic, Italian romantic epic, and his native medieval inheritance. Index.Bibliography.

The first book of Spenser's Faerie queene retold in prose. A knight, symbolizing holiness, vanquishes various forms of evil, and at the end of his quest wins the hand of Una, who symbolizes truth.

Follows the adventures of twelve knights, each an example of a different virtue, as they undertake difficult quests for their queen.

This version of Edmund Spenser's classic tale is retold in an accessible manner, bringing stories of knights, dragons, sorcerers and princesses to a new generation.