King Arthur and His Knights

by James Knowles and Sir James Knowles

Book Overview

What starts as a rags to riches story transforms into an adventure as this collection of legends explores the triumphs and failures of a young king and his accomplices. When Arthur, a young boy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0681401966
• ISBN13: 9780681401969
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Borders Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 4 and higher

Customer Reviews

Classic

Classic King Arthur stories, with all the smiteth-ing and destresseth damsels one might wish. A bit of a slow read due to the older writing style and inclusion of every name of every night present at every battle, but the book contained everything from Merlin's predictions to the Quest for the Holy Grail to Arthur being bore off to Avalon.

Fairly interesting, and you don't need to read it all to get a good takeaway

I enjoyed this book, or what part of it I read, anyway. It is the rather un-nuanced account of the adventures had by a group of knights (of the Round Table, of course). There is no character development and very little overarching plot to tie the stories together, but there is something oddly compelling about it. There is a great deal of smiting, and rending helms asunder, and rescuing fair maidens in distress (can you imagine???? The evil giant makes ladies actually do manual labor, though they be of high birth!). You get the general idea pretty quickly, I've read half and feel like I've gotten all I will get out of this book. It's free though, so I am glad I checked it out.