This book is fantasy fiction. We believe it contains valuable lessons and themes but it may not be as explicitly Christian as the rest of our range. We recommend parents familiarise themselves with the fantasy books their children read and discuss the stories and themes with them.
Ages 12+
Book III is perhaps the most unique book of The Fairie Queene , and now you can read it in this helpful edition, updated and annotated for high school readers.
Edmund Spenser's tomb at Westminster Abbey has the inscription, the Prince of Poets. If you've read Books I and II of his unfinished English epic, The Faerie Queene , you know why by now. Written from the perspective of the heroic Britomart, Book III tells the story a warrior princess in search of her true love. Along the way she encounters wizards, monsters, braggarts, sea gods, cheats, and at the end, a deathly palace.
264 pages.
Warrior Princess: Book III of Edmund Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' is in the following collections:
