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The Legend of the Grail

By Nigel Bryant

Book information

Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Group
Year
2013
ISBN
9781782041535, 1782041532
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2317549 bytes)
Series
Arthurian Studies
Pages
512\274
Time added
2013-07-18 16:56:12

Description

The Grail legends have been appropriated by novelists as diverse as Umberto Eco and Dan Brown yet very few have read for themselves the original stories from which they came. All the mystery and drama of the Arthurian world are embodied in the extraordinary tales of Perceval, Gawain, Lancelot and Galahad in pursuit of the Holy Grail. The original romances, full of bewildering contradictions and composed by a number of different writers, dazzle with the sheer wealth of their conflicting imagination. In Nigel Bryant's hands, this enthralling material becomes truly accessible. He has constructed a single, consistent version of the Grail story in modern English which reasserts its relevance as one of the great and enduring works of literature.

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