Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the frost-bitten halls of Camelot to an eerie green chapel lost in a wild winter wilderness, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the most thrillingly constructed works of the Middle Ages — a poem that binds chivalric honour, supernatural menace, and human frailty into a single, breathtaking narrative. When a monstrous Green Knight rides uninvited into King Arthur's New Year feast and issues an audacious beheading challenge, only the young Sir Gawain steps forward, setting in motion a year-long trial of courage, loyalty, and moral integrity that will test everything he — and the Arthurian ideal — stands for. Composed by an anonymous 14th-century English poet of extraordinary skill, the work is widely regarded as the finest Arthurian romance in the English language, written in an intricate alliterative verse that echoes the Old English tradition while brimming with vivid, sensuous description. Penguin Classics has long championed this masterwork, making it accessible to modern readers through authoritative translation and scholarly apparatus, situating it alongside the great canonical texts of world literature. Whether read as a meditation on mortality, a study in the seductive power of temptation, or simply as a gripping adventure, this poem rewards every reader with the lingering question: what truly defines honour when no one is watching?
Author: -
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the frost-bitten halls of Camelot to an eerie green chapel lost in a wild winter wilderness, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the most thrillingly constructed works of the Middle Ages — a poem that binds chivalric honour, supernatural menace, and human frailty into a single, breathtaking narrative. When a monstrous Green Knight rides uninvited into King Arthur's New Year feast and issues an audacious beheading challenge, only the young Sir Gawain steps forward, setting in motion a year-long trial of courage, loyalty, and moral integrity that will test everything he — and the Arthurian ideal — stands for. Composed by an anonymous 14th-century English poet of extraordinary skill, the work is widely regarded as the finest Arthurian romance in the English language, written in an intricate alliterative verse that echoes the Old English tradition while brimming with vivid, sensuous description. Penguin Classics has long championed this masterwork, making it accessible to modern readers through authoritative translation and scholarly apparatus, situating it alongside the great canonical texts of world literature. Whether read as a meditation on mortality, a study in the seductive power of temptation, or simply as a gripping adventure, this poem rewards every reader with the lingering question: what truly defines honour when no one is watching?