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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight by Late Betty Radice

A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. Sir Gawain accepts the challenge and decapitates the knight - but the mysterious warrior cheats death and vanishes, bearing his head with him.

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EAN	9780140440928
UPC	9780140440928
ISBN	9780140440928
Book Title	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Publisher	Penguin Publishing Group
Item Length	7.8 in
Edition	2
Publication Year	1959
Format	Uk-B Format Paperback
Language	English
Illustrator	Yes
Item Height	0.4 in
Author	Brian Stone
Genre	Poetry, Fiction
Topic	Medieval, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Weight	6 Oz
Item Width	5.1 in
Number of Pages	192 Pages

'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain; Seek faithfully till you find me …'

A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men to behead him, provided that if he survives he can return the blow a year later. Sir Gawain accepts the challenge and decapitates the knight - but the mysterious warrior cheats death and vanishes, bearing his head with him. The following winter Gawain sets out to find the Knight in the wild Northern lands and to keep his side of the bargain. One of the great masterpieces of Middle English poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight magically combines elements of fairy tale and heroic sagas with the pageantry, chivalry and courtly love of medieval Romance.

Brian Stone's evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction that examines the Romance genre, and the poem's epic and pagan sources. This edition also includes essays discussing the central characters and themes, theories about authorship and Arthurian legends, and suggestions for further reading and notes.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Bernard O'Donoghue is a Fellow in English at Wadham College and a noted Irish poet.