The Green Knight [Paperback]

Vera Chapman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1978

A magical glimpse into the legendary age of Arthurian chivalry. Meet a daring damosel from the Golden Age, a brave, fearless woman of whom stories were told and legends woven.

Vivian is the fifteen year old grand-niece of the Lady Morgan le Fay, whose tale is inextricably linked with that of Sir Gawain le Jeune, the nephew of that great Gawain, one of King Arthur's most stalwart Knights...

Knightly chivalry is beset by Dark Age barbarity in this richly woven tapestry of heroes and heroines, monsters and saints, temptresses and magicians.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 173 pages
• Publisher: Avon (February 1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380017040
• ISBN-13: 978-0380017041
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,236,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real people stepping out from an Arthurian tapestry, July 14, 1998

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This review is from: Green Knight (Hardcover)

Like many authors, Vera Chapman tackles the daunting task of retelling and rounding out the characters of a well-known story. Unlike most authors, her retelling succeeds because it reads like her own story. While you know how it must end, you look forward to the fun of getting there. The story is the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in which Sir Gawain meets a challenge of almost certain death. However, by some deft family-history work (which is completely possible to my knowledge) she succeeds in making the characters her own, whose personalities are new and whose attitudes are modern and easy to sympathize with while not being anachronistic. What drew me into the story most, though, was the author's wonderful use of language. She writes in a lush descriptive style which leaves the readers with as clear a picture as a medieval tapestry. These vivid descriptions make the pages pass quickly and make the book impossible to put down. Luckily, the book is s! ! hort enough to make reading it in one (long!) sitting possible, since Chapman also knows how to make her storytelling concise while maintaining the atmosphere of a royal court. I highly recommend this book to anyone, teenage or adult, who loves to hear a good story being retold.