Stories of the King (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Baldwin, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133196735X ISBN 13: 9781331967354

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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But now the time had come for him to die. In his strong room in the castle tower he lay moaning and wailing, and no friend stood by to smooth his pillow or try to lessen his pain. His knights and servants had forsaken him. How long he is in dying! They said; and they made riot in his halls, and rejoiced because his reign was ended.

The night was dark and wild. The rain was fall ing. The wind whistled and shrieked in every nook and corner of the old castle. The thunder muttered and rolled. The lightning gleamed fear fully among the clouds.

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For more than a thousand years the tales and romances which cluster round the name of King Arthur have been told and retold to successive generations of delighted hearers and readers. Each teller has related his story in his own way, preserving the original thread of narrative unbroken, and borrowing more or less from his predecessors, but giving to the whole a color and setting adapted to the intelligence and tastes of his particular audience. Thus the Welsh bards of the tenth century repeated certain of the romances in such manner as to appeal most strongly to the minds and feelings of their countrymen. The French poets of a later time put these romances into a different form and invented new ones for the amusement of the fashionable people of their day. A scholarly Englishman of the fifteenth century collected all the King Arthur legends he could find and rewrote them for the entertainment of the lords and ladies whom he knew. A poet laureate of the nineteenth century selected a few of the most pleasing romances and from them produced the Idylls of the King for the perpetual delight of minds mature and poetically inclined.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 133196735X
• ISBN 13: 9781331967354
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 334