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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 16,24 MB
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393334155
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
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Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0593511212
The inspiration for the major motion picture The Green Knight starring Dev Patel, an early English poem of magic, chivalry and seduction. Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to the court: he will allow himself to be struck by one blow, on the condition that he will be allowed to return the strike on the following New Year's Eve. Sir Gawain takes up the challenge, decapitating the stranger - only to see the Green Knight seize up his own severed head and ride away, leaving Gawain to seek him out and honour their pact. Blending Celtic myth and Christian faith, Gawain is among the greatest Middle English poems: a tale of magic, chivalry and seduction.
Author : R. A. Waldron
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780810103283
Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101501642
Full of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblical and medieval themes in contemporary London. An attempt by the sharp, feral, and uncommonly intelligent Lucas Graffe to murder his sensual and charismatic half-brother Clement is interrupted by a stranger—whom Lucas strikes and leaves for dead. When the stranger mysteriously reappears, with specific demands for reparation, the Graffes’ circle of idiosyncratic family and friends is disrupted—for the demands are bizarre, intrusive, and ultimately fatal.
Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763676977
“Morpurgo's dramatic telling captures the vitality of the tale as well as its beauty and mystery.” — Booklist (starred review) Welcome to a medieval world full of sword fights and shape-shifting, monsters and magic, and timeless characters both gallant and wonderfully human. Written anonymously in the fourteenth century, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is retold in its entirety by Michael Morpurgo in a lively and accessible narration that captures all the tale’s drama and humor. Vivid illustrations by the celebrated Michael Foreman infuse this classic tale with dragons, swords, and medieval pageantry.
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 1900
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008393625
Contains stories from the age of chivalry, knights and holy quests.
Author : Emily Cheeseman
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2017-05
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ISBN : 9781532342592
Author : Kliph Nesteroff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982103051
"From renowned comedy journalist and historian Kliph Nesteroff comes the underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy"--
Author : Mark Shannon
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399224461
Young Gawain proves himself a worthy knight when he accepts the challenge of a mysterious visitor from the North Country.
