The Princess The Princess

The Princess

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Publisher Description

The poem tells the story of an heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women's university where men are forbidden to enter. The prince to whom she was betrothed in infancy enters the university with two friends, disguised as women students. They are discovered and flee, but eventually they fight a battle for the princess's hand. They lose and are wounded, but the women nurse the men back to health. Eventually the princess returns the prince's love.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1870
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
108
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
81.4
KB

Customer Reviews

Pinkyandthebrainnarf(ONeBay) ,

Smashing!

Persevered with the meter and was singing in iambic pentameter all the way through! Beautiful, feminist, chauvinistic, layered, gallant, heroic, didactic. Amazeballs!

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