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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

by Philip Sidney

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  1. Introduction

    29:52

  2. The Epistle Dedicatory

    2:28

  3. Book 1 Part 1

    29:38

  4. Book 1 Part 2

    30:01

  5. Book 1 Part 3

    29:50

  6. Book 1 Part 4

    29:05

  7. Book 1 Part 5

    29:44

  8. Book 1 Part 6

    29:34

  9. Book 2 Part 1

    29:59

  10. Book 2 Part 2

    29:37

  11. Book 2 Part 3

    29:20

  12. Book 2 Part 4

    29:16

  13. Book 2 Part 5

    29:57

  14. Book 2 Part 6

    34:31

  15. Book 3 Part 1

    29:35

  16. Book 3 Part 2

    29:59

  17. Book 3 Part 3

    29:24

  18. Book 3 Part 4

    29:44

  19. Book 3 Part 5

    29:56

  20. Book 3 Part 6

    29:57

  21. Book 3 Part 7

    29:57

  22. Book 3 Part 8

    29:56

  23. Book 3 Part 9

    9:53

  24. Book 4 Part 1

    29:25

  25. Book 4 Part 2

    17:36

  26. Book 5 Part 1

    29:43

  27. Book 5 Part 2

    14:16

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1868) is a public domain work.

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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. This free edition is available as a PDF and EPUB download.

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Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) was an English poet, courtier, and soldier, an ideal of the Renaissance gentleman. His Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella are landmarks of Elizabethan literature.

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First published
1590
Reading time
About 25 hours
Pages
780
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Nicole Lee