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King Arthur's Knights

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  1. 00 - Preface

    6:00

  2. 01 - Preface and How Arthur Was Made King and Won His Kingdom

    49:13

  3. 02 - Sir Balin and the Stroke Dolorous

    35:52

  4. 03 - How Lancelot Was Made a Knight. The Four Witch Queens and the Adventures at the Chapel Perilous

    33:10

  5. 04 - The Knight of the Kitchen

    42:19

  6. 05 - How Sir Tristram Kept His Word

    52:28

  7. 06 - The Deeds of Sir Geraint

    60:35

  8. 07 - How Sir Perceval Was Taught Chivalry, and Ended the Evil Wrought by Sir Balin's Dolorous Stroke

    43:26

  9. 08 - How Sir Owen Won the Earldom of the Fountain

    47:11

  10. 09 - Of Sir Lancelot and the Fair Maid of Astolat

    29:21

  11. 10 - How the Three Good Knights Achieved the Holy Graal

    49:42

  12. 11 - Of the Plots of Sir Mordred; and How Sir Lancelot Saved the Queen

    48:46

  13. 12 - Of Sir Gawaine's Hatred, and the War with Sir Lancelot

    48:32

  14. 13 - Of the Rebellion of Mordred and the Death of King Arthur

    62:08

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About this book

Henry Gilbert set out in 1911 to hand the Round Table to children without thinning it out. Working from Malory's Morte D'Arthur and the Welsh Mabinogion, he chose thirteen tales and told them straight through: the death of Uther Pendragon, the sword in the stone, the winning of Excalibur, Balin's dolorous stroke, and the Grail quest that brings Galahad to court. Lancelot, Tristram, Geraint and Perceval each get their own adventures, and the book runs on to Mordred's rebellion and Arthur's last battle. The language is plain, but Gilbert kept the weight of the material: what a knight owes, and what follows when he fails. The first edition carried sixteen colour plates by Walter Crane. It remains a sensible doorway into Arthurian legend.

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Henry Gilbert

Henry Gilbert (1868–1937) was an English author who made his name retelling legend and history for young readers. Besides King Arthur's Knights, he wrote Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood (1912), often described as the first significant modern reworking of that story, along with The Book of Pirates and volumes retelling Prescott on the conquerors of Me...

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Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
317
Language
English
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Audio read by
William Tomcho, Eden Rea-Hedrick, Peter John Keeble and others