About “Faerie queene”

The Faerie Queene is a poetic work that presents the quests of various knights, each representing a moral virtue, as they undertake adventures to achieve their respective ideals. The Red Crosse Knight seeks Holinesse by defeating a dragon and overcoming the witch Duessa, Sir Guyon pursues Temperance by resisting the Cave of Mammon and destroying Acrasia’s Bowre of Bliss, and Britomart searches for her knight, Artegall, as revealed to her in an enchanted mirror.

Book details

Published
1590
Latest edition
1590 · ISBN 9780140422078
ISBN
9780140422078

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How many pages is Faerie queene?

Faerie queene by Edmund Spenser has 1248 pages.

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