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The Story of King Arthur & His Knights by Howard Pyle

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book_dragon88's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

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3.0

An interesting take on the King Arthur legends/oral stories. All my exposure to the King Arthur legend has been from movies/tv etc...so I was surprised by this taking of the accounts which there are 130 knights of the round table!! I thought there were 12? Then it checked - haha, so many different versions. This leads to the next notable character...

Whoa, Guinevere- definitely not a feminist vision of her character but has she ever been portrayed in a positive light? I really don't know and I'm interested in finding out how the world has put her fictional character to the tests of modern thought...

I can pretend to see the influences in why this story was written but I don't have facts...so I'll keep reading each version just to see.

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4.0

As with any collection of stories, I found myself very engaged with some and dragging myself through some others. I really appreciated Pyle's voice and loved what he did with these tales. So many of the characteristics and virtues of this era are somewhat foreign to us now, but can yet inspire chivalry and courtliness and true affection to this day. I also found it really neat to finally read some King Arthur myths and it was easy to see how language, custom, and these ideas permeated into works by Tolkien and others. Overall, not my most "fun" read, but I learned a lot and would absolutely read these to my son.