King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table S.C. Book Roger Lancelyn Green

King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table Soft Cover Book Roger Lancelyn Green

The book is unread but has minor corner damage to the front cover otherwise it is in good shape. I only opend the book to scan the pictures and check the contents tables.

Soft Covered Book. 385 pages plus 13 pages of extra information and 14 pages of prologues. For a total of 412 pages.
The book measures approximately: 7 X 5 X 1-1/4 Inches (17.8 X 12.9 X 3.2 cm). And weighs approximately: 12 Ounces (340 gr) Shipping weight will be 400 grams.

Suggested reading level: Ages 9-12

From The rear Cover:

Step up to the Round Table and join the Knights of the Realm

A legend is born when young Arthur meets Merlin and draws the mighty sword from its stone. This spell binding retelling brings to Life King Arthur and the adventures of his Knights, from the quest for the Holy Grail to the final tragedy of the Last Battle.

PUFFIN CLASSICS

PLUS
A behind-the-scenes journey, including an author profile, a guide to who’s who, activities and more.

- COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED -

ISBN 978-0-141-32101-1

Cover illustration by Chris Wormell

Leaving his horse with Merlin, Arthur went down the steep path to the side of the magic lake. Standing on the shore, he looked out across the quiet blue water — and there in the very centre of the Lake he saw an arm clothed in white samite with a hand holding above the surface a wondrous sword with a golden hilt set with jewels, and a jewelled scabbard and belt.

And then Arthur saw a beautiful damsel dressed in pale blue silk with a golden girdle, who walked across the water until she stood before him on the shore.

INTRODUCTION BY DAVID ALMOND

Of all the books I read when I was young, this was my favourite. I tugged is from a Christmas stocking one Christmas morning. As I flicked through the pages, l was seduced straight away by Lotte Reiniger’s wondered illustrations, and then by Arthur himself, this ordinary-teeming kid who performs the miraculous in such an offhand way. His brother needs a sword? ‘1 know’ he says. ‘I saw one sticking in an anvil in the churchyard, I’ll fetch that: it’s doing no good there!’ And with a simple tug of his young arm, he confronts his destiny and a whole new world order begins so be established.

He pulls the sword from the stone on page seven, he’s king by page nine, and by the time Merlin speaks of Logres, God’s Kingdom upon earth, I was swept away from my Tyneside home, and was quite ready so agree that ‘all who heard him felt that they were at the beginning of a time of wonders. This tremendous opening is matched by the beautifully pitched ending, when a spine-tingling discovery made by a simple shepherd confirms the myth that Arthur and his knights will one day wake and rise again.

In between lie page after page of strong and sinewy storytelling. Bloody accounts of limbs being hacked off sit side by side with haunting descriptions of magic and miracle. Damsels are saved, knights are enchanted; there are dragons. witches, wise men and fools; there is love, desire, treachery and sin. The knights’ quests take them to places of darkness and doom and to the anterooms of Heaven itself.

With Green, the language is properly heightened, beguiling, but is never self-regarding or portentous. He never allows the beauty of the prose to impede the progress of the story. See the first pages of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for instance, where the lovely description of the knight himself (‘. . . green was his face and green his hands; and the horse was also green from head to foot, with gold thread wound and knotted in the mane’) is followed by the swift and accurate account of his decapitation (‘Gawain whirled up the axe and struck so hard that the keen blade cut through flesh and bone and . . . the Green Knight’s head leapt from his shoulders’).

I loved this book as a boy. I kept it all through my teenage years. Then I left home and lost it. Years later, I came upon a copy on a Norfolk market stall, opened it, and its magic worked on me again. And then I read it for this new edition, and it works again, just as it did on that Christmas morning years ago. Each time this wonderful book is opened, the sword is drawn again, the realm of Logres is re-established, and Arthur and his knights set off on their quests through the imagination of each new reader.

Also found in this book are 13 pages of extra Camelot information:

Author File

Who’s Who in Camelot

The History Of King Arthur

Some Things To Think About . . .

Some Things To Do . . .

Technofiles: Armour, Swords, Spears And Shields

ISBN: 978-0-141-32101-1
UPC: 9780141 321011

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