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  • The Days of Chivalry; Or, The Legend of Croquemitaine

    by Quatrelles ...
    Croquemitaine: The central character, often portrayed as a villain or fearsome figure in the legends. Croquemitaine's role is crucial to the unfolding events and conflicts in the story.The Heroic Knight: A noble knight who opposes Croquemitaine and represents the ideals of chivalry and heroism.The Heroine: A female character who is often at the center of romantic and dramatic elements, providing a ... Read more

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  • The Days of Chivalry

    or, The Legend of Croquemitaine

    by Quatrelles ...
    Translated by Tom Hood ...
    Series series Comedy & Satire
    Complete and unabridged, with 52 full-page plates by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Gustave Doré and Dominic Serres. A mock-medieval romance in which the knight is ridiculous and the dragon is worse, by a Second Empire official who wrote as Quatrelles. Light, brisk and entirely unserious about chivalry. This edition carries Tom Hood's translation and a gallery of 52 plates, among them paintings by ... Read more

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  • The Days of Chivalry; Or, The Legend of Croquemitaine

    Enriched edition. Medieval Folklore of Knights, Mythic Creatures, and Heroic Quests

    by Quatrelles ...
    Translated by Tom Hood ...
    In "The Days of Chivalry; Or, The Legend of Croquemitaine," Quatrelles weaves a rich tapestry of medieval folklore where romance and heroism collide in a vibrant narrative. The book employs an evocative prose style, brimming with poetic imagery and playful language that brings its legendary characters to life. Set against a backdrop of chivalric ideals and mythical creatures, the tale deftly ... Read more

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  • The Days of Chivalry; Or, The Legend of Croquemitaine

    Enriched edition. A Tale of Knights, Honor, and Epic Quests in a World of Legends

    by Quatrelles, Caleb Bradford ...
    Translated by Tom Hood ...
    In "The Days of Chivalry; Or, The Legend of Croquemitaine," Quatrelles masterfully weaves a rich tapestry of medieval folklore, exploring the duality of heroic ideals and the darker undercurrents that often accompany them. The text exhibits a playful yet poignant prose style, seamlessly blending vivid imagery and lyrical dialogue, akin to the works of contemporaneous Romantic poets. Set against a ... Read more

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  • 50 Medieval Historical Novels

    Chivalric Romance, Crusades, Courtly Intrigue, Norse Sagas, and Medieval Worlds Reimagined

    by Walter Scott, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Howard Pyle, George Gissing, William Morris, Grace Aguilar, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, Mary Shelley, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Cao Xueqin, James Hogg, Georg Ebers, Robert Williams Buchanan, Lew Wallace, G. P. R. James, Pearl Poet, C. R. Macauley, Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío, John Fox Jr., G. A. Henty, William John Ferrar, Quatrelles, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Felix Dahn, Arthur W. Marchmont, Robert E. Howard, F. Marion Crawford, Friedrich de La Motte-Fouqué, Sylvanus Cobb, Robert B. Brough, Jean Bernard Lafon, Thomas Malory, Tobias Smollett, Florence L. Barclay, Emma Orczy, Jessie L. Weston, Thomas Love Peacock, John Bunyan, Maurice Hewlett, Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Emily Sarah Holt ...
    50 Medieval Historical Novels surveys the medieval past as it has been repeatedly reimagined across romance, adventure, Gothic fantasy, chivalric chronicle, religious allegory, and nationalist historical fiction. Ranging from Arthurian legend and crusading narratives to courtly intrigue, outlawry, and imagined reconstructions of feudal society, the volume places canonical medieval texts beside ... Read more

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  • Timeless Tales of Chivalry: 50 Outstanding Medieval Historical Novels

    Fifty Medieval Romances of Grail Quests, Crusades, Castle Intrigue, and Sacred Vows

    by Felix Dahn, Mary Shelley, Walter Scott, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Howard Pyle, George Gissing, William Morris, Grace Aguilar, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Cao Xueqin, James Hogg, Georg Ebers, Robert Williams Buchanan, Lew Wallace, G. P. R. James, Pearl Poet, C. R. Macauley, Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío, John Fox Jr., G. A. Henty, William John Ferrar, Quatrelles, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Arthur W. Marchmont, Robert E. Howard, F. Marion Crawford, Friedrich de La Motte-Fouqué, Sylvanus Cobb, Robert B. Brough, Jean Bernard Lafon, Thomas Malory, Tobias Smollett, Florence L. Barclay, Emma Orczy, Jessie L. Weston, Thomas Love Peacock, John Bunyan, Maurice Hewlett, Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Emily Sarah Holt ...
    Timeless Tales of Chivalry gathers fifty works that imagine, inherit, and interrogate the medieval past through romance, adventure, chronicle, gothic fantasy, quest narrative, and historical fiction. Ranging from Arthurian legend and crusading ideals to courtly love, dynastic conflict, religious struggle, and outlawry, the volume places canonical medieval voices beside later reinventions of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • The Talisman

    by Walter Scott ...
    Series series World Classics
    "The Talisman" by Walter Scott is a historical novel set during the Third Crusade. It follows the adventures of Sir Kenneth, a Scottish knight, and his encounters with Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. Amidst political intrigue and cultural clashes, the narrative explores themes of honor, chivalry, and the possibility of peaceful coexistence. Scott's vivid storytelling immerses readers in the ... Read more

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  • The Sixteen Satires of Juvenal

    by Juvenal ...
    Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known as Juvenal, is one of the greatest satirists and moralists in history. His works, of which 16 are preserved, are scathing and unapologetic in their presentment of Rome and its citizens; Juvenal is also revered as a social historian for his vivid depictions of Latin life. He wrote his satires between 100 and 127 AD, and although his volumes of poetry were lost for ... Read more

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  • Charlemagne and Roland

    A Novel

    by Allan Massie ...
    Third in Allan Massie's celebrated Dark Ages seriesA truly European monarch, Charlemagne was king of the Franks from 768 to 814 and for some of that time king of the Lombards, too. From 800, when at Mass on Christmas day in Rome, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Imperator Romanorum (Emperor of the Romans) he became the renewer of the Western Empire, which had expired in the 5th century. His dual ... Read more

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  • The Song of Roland

    by W. S. Merwin ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A contemporary prose rendering of the great medieval French epic, The Song of Roland is as canonical and significant as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. It extols the chivalric ideals in the France of Charlemagne through the exploits of Charlemagne's nephew, the warrior Roland, who fights bravely to his death in a legendary battle. Against the bloody backdrop of the struggle between Christianity and Islam ... Read more

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  • The Story of Roland

    by James Baldwin ...
    One summer afternoon rather more than eleven hundred years ago, the boy Roland was sitting in the cleft of a broken rock that forms the crest of one of the hills in the neighborhood of Sutri. Above him was the deep blue sky of Italy, unflecked by any cloud: on either side of him stretched a dull, uneven plain broken here and there by wet marshes, and long lines of low hills. A mile or more to the ... Read more

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  • At the Sign of the Golden Compass - A Tale of the Printing House of Christopher Plantin in Antwerp, 1576

    by Eric P. Kelly ...
    A wonderful and witty historical novel concerning the ups and down of the printing trade in Tudor times. ... Read more

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