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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

Burton Raffel Professor Burton Raffel Brenda Webster

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English
Signet Classics
03 February 2009
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE UPCOMING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE THE GREEN KNIGHT-STARRING DEV PATEL

An epic poem of honor and bravery written by an anonymous fourteenth-century poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's masterworks and of the great Old English poems, including Beowulf.

It is Christmas in Camelot, and a truly royal feast has been laid out for King Arthur and his knights. And though there is plenty of good cheer to go around, the festivities hardly begin before a monstrous, axe-wielding, green-skinned knight barges in. He has come to see the famous Knights of the Round Table and offer them a simple but deadly challenge-a challenge taken on by the brave Sir Gawain-a challenge that will force him to choose between his honor and his life....

Includes a Preface by Burton Raffel an Introduction by Brenda Webster and an Afterword by Neil D. Isaacs
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Imprint:   Signet Classics
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 172mm,  Width: 105mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   91g
ISBN:   9780451531193
ISBN 10:   0451531191
Pages:   160
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Burton Raffel is professor emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and an eminent poet and translator. He is the author of numerous books of literary criticism, including How to Read a Poem, and critically acclaimed translations of such works as Beowulf and Don Quixote.

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