Description
By Jeanie Lang. Illustrated by Rose Le Quesne. Full color edition. Enter a wondrous realm of knights, dragons, magic, and noble quests in this enchanting retelling of one of the great works of English poetry.
In Stories from the Faerie Queen Told to the Children, author Jeanie Lang introduces younger readers to the rich imaginative world of Edmund Spenser and his celebrated epic poem The Faerie Queene. Through graceful and engaging storytelling, Lang retells selected episodes from Spenser’s vast allegorical masterpiece while preserving their spirit of adventure, romance, wonder, and moral struggle.
Across eight stories, readers encounter heroic knights, fair ladies, wicked witches, fearsome creatures, and strange enchantments. Among the memorable figures are the brave Red Cross Knight, the warrior maiden Britomart, Sir Guyon, Pastorella, Florimell, and Marinell, the son of a sea nymph. Dragons are fought, magical perils encountered, and loyalty, bravery, and honor tested in adventures drawn from Spenser’s extraordinary imaginary world.
More than a collection of fantastic adventures, Stories from the Faerie Queen Told to the Children offers a glimpse into the moral ideals, chivalric traditions, and literary imagination that shaped Spenser’s great Elizabethan poem.
This carefully restored edition brings Jeanie Lang’s classic retelling to a new generation of readers, accompanied by Rose Le Quesne’s illustrations. Ideal for students, homeschool libraries, lovers of fantasy and medieval romance, and readers interested in classic English literature, it offers an inviting introduction to the magical and heroic world of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.
About the author: Jeanie Lang was a Scottish writer known for her books for younger readers, including retellings of mythology, legend, history, and classic literature. Her many works introduced young audiences to stories and figures drawn from the literature, folklore, and history of different cultures.
About the illustrator: Rose Le Quesne was a British illustrator active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her illustrations appeared in a number of books for young readers. For Stories from the Faerie Queen Told to the Children, she created an illustration to accompany each of Jeanie Lang’s eight retold stories.
