The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
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- First published
- 1590
- Pages
- 780
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Introduction
29:52 -
The Epistle Dedicatory
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Book 1 Part 1
29:38 -
Book 1 Part 2
30:01 -
Book 1 Part 3
29:50 -
Book 1 Part 4
29:05 -
Book 1 Part 5
29:44 -
Book 1 Part 6
29:34 -
Book 2 Part 1
29:59 -
Book 2 Part 2
29:37 -
Book 2 Part 3
29:20 -
Book 2 Part 4
29:16 -
Book 2 Part 5
29:57 -
Book 2 Part 6
34:31 -
Book 3 Part 1
29:35 -
Book 3 Part 2
29:59 -
Book 3 Part 3
29:24 -
Book 3 Part 4
29:44 -
Book 3 Part 5
29:56 -
Book 3 Part 6
29:57 -
Book 3 Part 7
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Book 3 Part 8
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Book 3 Part 9
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Book 4 Part 1
29:25 -
Book 4 Part 2
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Book 5 Part 1
29:43 -
Book 5 Part 2
14:16
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1868) is a public domain work.
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About this book
Philip Sidney wrote this sprawling prose romance for his sister Mary, the Countess of Pembroke, and read it to her in installments before his early death. Set in an idealized Greek Arcadia, it follows two princes who disguise themselves, one as a shepherd and one as an Amazon, to win the daughters of a king who has retreated to the countryside to escape a troubling oracle. Around their courtships Sidney packs shipwrecks, jousts, disguises, rebellion, and long debates on love and honor, interlaced with poems and pastoral songs. Wildly influential on later English fiction and poetry, it stands as one of the great works of the Elizabethan age.
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Book facts
- Author
- Philip Sidney
- First published
- 1590
- Reading time
- About 25 hours
- Pages
- 780
- Language
- English
- Genre
- British Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Nicole Lee