Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ; Pearl and Sir Orfeo /
It's Christmas at Camelot and King Arthur won't begin to feast until he has witnessed a marvel of chivalry. A mysterious knight, green from head to toe, rides in and brings the court's wait to an end with an implausible challenge to the Round Table. He will allow any of the knights to...
| Uniform Title: | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First Mariner Books edition. |
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| Summary: | It's Christmas at Camelot and King Arthur won't begin to feast until he has witnessed a marvel of chivalry. A mysterious knight, green from head to toe, rides in and brings the court's wait to an end with an implausible challenge to the Round Table. He will allow any of the knights to strike him once, with a battle axe no less, on the condition that he is allowed to return the blow a year hence. Arthur's brave favorite for the challenge is Sir Gawain. Accompanying Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in this volume are Sir Orfeo, a medieval version of the story of Orpheus and Euridice, a love so strong that it overcame death, and Pearl, the moving tale of a man in a graveyard mourning his baby daughter, lost like a pearl that slipped through his fingers. Worn out by grief, he falls asleep and dreams of meeting her in a bejewelled fantasy world. Interpreted in a form designed to appeal to the general reader, J.R.R. Tolkien's vivid translations of these classic poems represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals. Includes as a bonus the complete text of Tolkien's acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain. |
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| Item Description: | Illustrations on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | 255 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780358652977 0358652979 |