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The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser

First published 1609
Type Novel

This extended epic poem deals with the adventures of knights, dragons, ladies in distress, etc. yet it is also an extended allegory about the moral life and what makes for a life of virtue.

The first three books of The Faerie Queene were published in 1590, and a second set of three books were published in 1596.
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Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1609 The Faerie Queene, Disposed into XII. Bookes: Fashioning Twelve Morall Vertues Mathew Lownes Novel
1611 Cover The Faerie Queene: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poët Mathew Lownes Omnibus
1751 The Faerie Queene Brindley & Wright Novel
1758 The Faerie Queene J. and R. Tonson Novel
1758 Cover The Faerie Queene William Faden Novel
1865 The Faerie Queene Routledge, Warne and Routledge Novel
1870 Cover The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser William P. Nimmo Omnibus
1870 The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser Wm. W. Swayne Omnibus
1897 Cover Spenser's Faerie Queene George Allen Novel
1897 Cover Spenser's Faerie Queene George Allen Novel
1923 The Faerie Queene Ashendene Press Novel
1932 Cover The Poetical Work of Edmund Spenser Oxford University Press Omnibus 1
1932 Cover The Poetical Work of Edmund Spenser Oxford University Press Omnibus 211
1953 The Faerie Queene The Limited Editions Club Novel
1978 Cover The Faerie Queene Penguin Books (US) Novel
January 2014 Cover The Faerie Queene LibriVox Novel
September 2023 Cover The Faerie Queene Waking Lion Press Novel