The Light Beyond The Forest: The Quest For The Holy Grail
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the shimmering, perilous world of Arthurian legend, the Knights of the Round Table embark on the most sacred and impossible of missions — the quest for the Holy Grail — a journey that will test the very limits of honour, faith, and human endurance. Rosemary Sutcliff's The Light Beyond the Forest chronicles the legendary exploits of Sir Lancelot, Sir Percival, Sir Bors, and Sir Galahad as they ride out from Camelot into a Britain alive with divine mystery, shadowy enchantments, and trials that separate the pure of heart from the merely brave. Drawing from the great medieval sources — Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and the French Vulgate Cycle — Sutcliff retells this timeless saga with rare clarity and narrative authority, making it accessible without ever diminishing its spiritual grandeur. Sutcliff's prose is at once lyrical and disciplined, rooted in her masterful command of the Arthurian world she spent a lifetime inhabiting as an author. The novel presents the Grail quest not merely as a tale of chivalric adventure but as a profound meditation on spiritual aspiration, human fallibility, and the painful gap between the ideal and the real. The first volume in her celebrated Arthurian trilogy, it leaves the reader haunted by a single, aching question: what does it truly mean to be worthy?
Author: Rosemary Sutcliff
Format: Hardback
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the shimmering, perilous world of Arthurian legend, the Knights of the Round Table embark on the most sacred and impossible of missions — the quest for the Holy Grail — a journey that will test the very limits of honour, faith, and human endurance. Rosemary Sutcliff's The Light Beyond the Forest chronicles the legendary exploits of Sir Lancelot, Sir Percival, Sir Bors, and Sir Galahad as they ride out from Camelot into a Britain alive with divine mystery, shadowy enchantments, and trials that separate the pure of heart from the merely brave. Drawing from the great medieval sources — Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and the French Vulgate Cycle — Sutcliff retells this timeless saga with rare clarity and narrative authority, making it accessible without ever diminishing its spiritual grandeur. Sutcliff's prose is at once lyrical and disciplined, rooted in her masterful command of the Arthurian world she spent a lifetime inhabiting as an author. The novel presents the Grail quest not merely as a tale of chivalric adventure but as a profound meditation on spiritual aspiration, human fallibility, and the painful gap between the ideal and the real. The first volume in her celebrated Arthurian trilogy, it leaves the reader haunted by a single, aching question: what does it truly mean to be worthy?