The Faerie Queene: The Red Cross Knight

Edmund Spenser

⏱ 8 minEpic & myth

The most beloved book of Spenser's vast Elizabethan allegory: a young knight, in truth Saint George, rides out to free a kingdom from a monstrous dragon, escorting the pure lady Una -- deceived by a false witch, brought near ruin, and rising at last to a three-day battle with the ancient Dragon itself. A jewelled tale of Holiness.

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