Stories From The Faerie Queene

These prose retellings are a good way to orient oneself to the storylines in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. I read a section of this book before reading the corresponding FQ canto(s) and found that doing so really helped me keep my bearings. Note: Because children are the intended audience for......more

This was such a great read. Gwen and I both loved it. It was admittedly hard to keep track of characters and plot lines, as it gets pretty complicated, but the stories were really compelling and thought provoking. It makes me want to attempt the real thing again one day. Having tried and failed to r......more

This book was cool. It's basically Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene put into long fairytale-style prose—so it's not an epic poem, and it's not really, really long. It's still about 80k words, though, but only one book instead of seven. This helped immensely for me to gather the plot and story. Actu......more

Sizzling fan fiction in the Arthurian macroverse.......more

Read with the girls this year (they were 8 and 10). They got a beautiful taste of the Faerie Queene and heard about Una, Britomart, and Marinell and Florimell. They want to read the Mary MacLeod retelling next!......more