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The Faery Queen and Her Knights

The Faery Queen and Her Knights by Alfred John Church is available here as the complete text, split into 674 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Faery Queen and Her Knights: Stories Retold from Edmund Spenser by Alfred John Church. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #55765.

39 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary
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Academic course · 39 chapters

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The Faery Queen and Her Knights

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  1. Chapter I 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II Archimage and Duessa 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III The Fortunes of Una 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV Of What Befell at the House of Pride 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V How the Red-Cross Knight Leaves the Castle of Pride 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI The Lady Una and the Satyrs 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII Of the Giant Orgoglio 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII Of the Deeds of Prince Arthur 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX Of the House of Holiness 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X Of the Slaying of the Dragon 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI Of Sir Guyon and the Lady Medina 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII How Sir Guyon Came into Great Peril 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII Of Two Pagan Knights 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV Of Queen Acrasia 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV Britomart 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Of Merlin’s Magic Mirror 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII How Britomart Took to Arms 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII Sir Scudamore and Amoret 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX Of Sir Paridell and Others 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX The Story of Canacé and the Three Brothers 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI The Story of Florimell 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII Of the False Florimell 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII Sir Satyrane’s Tournament 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV Of Florimell’s Girdle 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV Of Britomart and Artegall 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI Of the Fortunes of Amoret 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII Of Sir Artegall and the Knight Sanglier 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII Of Other Adventures of Sir Artegall 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX Sir Artegall Does Justice 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX Radigund 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI How Sir Artegall Was Delivered 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII Of the Knave Malengin 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII Of the Lady Belgé 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV Of Sir Artegall and Grantorto 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV Of Sir Calidore and the Lady Briana 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI Of the Valour of Tristram 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII Sir Calepine and the Lady Serena 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII Of Sir Calidore and Pastorella 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX The End of Sir Calidore’s Quest 25 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Project Gutenberg eBook #55765, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 280 minutes of reading across 674 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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