Knight's Fee (Historical Novel - 1st Edition)

by Rosemary Sutcliff

Book Overview

When Randall drops a fig on the new Lord's horse, his life changes forever. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0000CKQ1Q
• Release Date: January 1960
• Publisher: Henry Z. Walck 1960
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Rare and Underrated

Knight's Fee is one of the four or five books I've read in my life which alway make me cry. Though written for children, it's completely unpatronising, always crediting the reader with intelligence and imagination, and is beautifully written. It tells the story of Randal, a half-Saxon half-Breton lad in Norman England, an orphan left to fend for himself as a dog-boy in Arundel castle, and details his gradual rise to knighthood and freedom, at a terrible price. I have only ever seen this book in hardback, in an Oxford Childrens Library edition, never in paperback, which is a great pity, as it is a vastly underrated book by this author, far better I think than her more well-known stories of Roman Britain, and deserves to be much more widely read.