18 books like Grail (Pendragon Cycle #5)
The Elfstones of Shannara
Ancient, ultimate evil threaterned the Elves and the Races of Man. For the Ellcrys, the tree created by long-lost elven magic, was dying, losing the spell of Forbidding that locked the hordes of ravening Demons away from Earth. Already the Reaper, most fearsome of demons, was free. Only one source of protection was powerful enough to stop it: The Elfstones of Shannara.
The stones and the right…
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The Boy's King Arthur
The exploits of King Arthur and his knights in Britain.
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The story of Sir Launcelot and his companions
Follows Sir Launcelot of the Round Table as he rescues Queen Guinevere, fights in the tournament at Astolat and pursues other adventures.
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The Wicked Day
Far from being the scourge of Arthur, his bastard son Mordred actually strives to resist Merlin's prophecy of doom. But he is thwarted by the schemes of his sorceress mother, Queen Morgause, who has brought him up to be her revenge incarnate.
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Pendragon
E-Book Extra: "Stephen R. Lawhead on…" (The writing process; The Atlantis/Britain connection; Whether or not Arthur existed, etc.)Arthur is King, but darkest evil has descended upon Britain's shores in many guises. And Arthur's most trusted counselor Myrddin, whom legend will name Merlin, is himself to be tested. So Arthur must stand alone against a terrible adversary to win immortality and the…
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The Complete Story of the Grail
Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Arthur’s Queen Guinevere, and in The Knight with the Lion Yvain neglects his bride in his quest for greater glory.…
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The Life Of Sir Aglovale De Galis
A fictional biography based on Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur.
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Kingdom of Summer
A farmer's son becomes Gwalchmai's servant and travels through Britain with this knight of the Round Table, son of the treacherous Morgawse, searching for Princess Elidan.
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Le cycle du Graal
"Jean Markale propose, dans le langage d'aujourd'hui, à partir des très nombreuses versions qu'il a suscitées, une reconstitution totale et chronologique du mythe du Graal, extraordinaire foisonnement de symboles et de réflexions, perc̦u souvent de fac̦on fragmentaire en raison même de l'abondance des textes et de la diversité des faits et des personnages évoqués."--Description de l'éditeur.
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Arthur
E-Book Extra: "Stephen R. Lawhead on…" (The writing process; The Atlantis/Britain connection; Whether or not Arthur existed, etc.)They called him unfit to rule, a lowborn, callow boy, Uther's bastard.But his coming bad been foretold in the songs of the bard Taliesin. And be had learned powerful secrets at the knee of the mystical sage Merlin. He was Arthur -- Pendragon of the Island of the Mighty…
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Sword at Sunset
This brilliant Arthurian epic cuts through the mists of pagan, early Christian, and medieval splendors that have gathered about the subject and tells the authentic story of the man who may well have been the real King Arthur—Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century. Presenting early Britain…
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Three early English metrical romances
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Gareth and Lynette, etc.
Poem, translated in Sanskrit prose.
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The book of the sword
A retelling of the classic Arthurian legend, full of action, adventure, and epic thrills!Mighty Rome subjugated the isle of Britain only to abandon it, leaving behind a bloody patchwork of warring tribes. The fragile peace imposed by the conquerors has been shattered, compelling Artoria Argantel -- Lady of the Lake and Druid priestess -- to call upon the Spirit of War and Justice to deliver a…
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Hawk of May
Gwalchmai journey's to the safety of his uncle King Arthur and his court to escape from the evil magic of his mother, Morgawse, a bitter enemy of Arthur's.
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Arthurian Chronicles
This work from the early 20th century contains translated editions of two early Arthurian tales by the authors Wace and Layamon.
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Beltane the Smith
A mighty man was Beltane the Smith, despite his youth already great of stature and comely of feature. Much knew he of woodcraft, of the growth of herb and tree and flower, of beast and bird, and how to tell each by its cry or song or flight; he knew the ways of fish in the streams, and could tell the course of the stars in the heavens; versed was he likewise in the ancient wisdoms and…
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The high history of the Holy Graal
Joseph Campbell, in his epic study The Masks of God places Wolfram's Parzival squarely on the dividing line between ancient and modern. Emma Jung, whose psychological insights are invaluable, identifies the Grail cycle as the beginning of the immanent spirituality of Christianity, in opposition to the more ancient transcendent view. Adolf Hitler considered the Hallows of the Grail to be an…
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