William Henry Giles Kingston 2 hr 19 min read

St. George of England, St. Andrew of Scotland, and their five fellow patron saints rove Europe and beyond, slaying enchanters, dragons, and other nuisances with their faithful, ever-fattening squires.

W. H. G. Kingston's 1875 retelling gathers the old legends of the seven patron-saint champions. Rousing, whimsical, richly told. Read it for a genial reworking of a classic chapbook romance, the patron saints of the nations as a band of dragon-slaying heroes, adventuring together through a world of marvels.

In its time

Published in 1875, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

2 hr 19 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).