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10 best books like The Arthurian Legends (Richard Barber): The Death of King Arthur, Lancelot of the Lake, Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I, Legends of Valor, The Arthurian Encyclopedia, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends, The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, The Fall of Camelot, Magical Beasts, Dwarfs

The Death of King Arthur
AuthorUnknown
Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the...
Lancelot of the Lake
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0192837931
Written in the early thirteenth century and universally considered a major work of European literature, Lancelot greatly influenced Malory, Tennyson, T.H. White and others. This edition presents, for the first time in English translation, the original, short version, which tells of Lancelot's...
Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I
AuthorThomas Malory
ISBN1401307809
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...
Legends of Valor
AuthorBrendan Lehane
ISBN0809452219
This is almost like reading two different books. I was convinced I was going to give this book a 2-star rating based on the first half. It starts with a collection of legends about an Irish hero named Cuchulain. Many of the legends have tons of internal references, and the text quite often tells you to (see...
The Arthurian Encyclopedia
AuthorNorris J. Lacy
ISBN0872261646
This review is of the 1986, red-covered version of THE ARTHURIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA, chief editor Norris Lacy. It's a big book, 649 pages, and appears to be substantially the same volume as the yellow-jacketed edition pictured above. It's worth understanding that the general field of "Arthuriana" embraces...
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends
AuthorRonan Coghlan
ISBN1566198763
Often plundered and even plagiarised – frequently online and most notably in print by Mike Dixon-Kennedy in his Arthurian Myth and Legend: an A-Z of People and Places (1996) – this was the first really accessible dictionary of Arthurian personages, locales and other miscellanea. While not an...
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
AuthorHoward Pyle
Written two years after The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, this Howard Pyle book returns to Arthur's court and presents the adventure-filled stories of three worthy, noble, excellent knights-champions — Sir Launcelot, Sir Tristram, and Sir Percival.
The stories of these three knights...
The Fall of Camelot
AuthorTime-Life Books
A stand alone book in the brilliant Enchanted World Series, THE FALL OF CAMELOT is written in a somber but engaging, highly readable tone, and beautifully illustrated. A concise, single volume retelling of the King Arthur saga, the book does a good job of remaining focused on the principals conflicts...
Magical Beasts
AuthorEllen Galford
ISBN0809452294
To learn more about the Enchanted World Series and see this full review, please visit www.readrantrockandroll.com

Magical Beasts is the second book in the Enchanted World Series that I've read recently. The book is split into three sections/chapters and covers many different beasts and...
Dwarfs
AuthorTim Appenzeller
ISBN0809452243
This book is similar in appearance, style, and presentation to other volumes in the Time-Life Enchanted World series, but contains content focusing on yet another creature of myth and fantasy: the dwarf. As with other Enchanted World volumes, "Dwarfs" contains numerous color illustrations that...
The Boy's King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
AuthorSidney Lanier
ISBN0684191113
First published in 1880, The Boy's King Arthur was edited by the American poet Sidney Lanier from Sir Thomas Malory's history of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Lanier said of the Malory work, "I suspect there are few books in our language which lead a reader - whether young or old - on from...
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
AuthorMichael Grant
ISBN0452011620
s/t: A fascinating study of the world's great myths and their impact on the creative arts through the ages
In this insightful and absorbing book, distinguished historian and classical scholar Michael Grant demonstrates the dynamic effect that ancient mythology has had on the creative efforts...
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry / Legends of Charlemagne
AuthorThomas Bulfinch
ISBN0808501747
For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been known.
The stories are divided into three sections: The Age...
Arthur's Britain
AuthorLeslie Alcock
ISBN0141390697
We are all familiar with the heroic deeds and enchantments of the legendary tales surrounding King Arthur. But what evidence is there for a real figure beneath the myth and romance?

Arthur's Britain assembles a wealth of information about the history of Arthur by delving into the shadowy period...
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend
AuthorAlan Lupack
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, characters, symbols, and places. Seven essays offer a comprehensive survey of the legends in all of their manifestations, from their origins...
The Quest for Merlin
AuthorNikolai Tolstoy
ISBN0316850802
Nikolai Tolstoy, a distant relative to Count Leo and latterly a parliamentary representative for the deluded United Kingdom Independence Party, confesses to being hooked on Arthurian legend for as long as he can remember.

The twin fruits of his obsession were his novel, The Coming of the...
The Discovery of King Arthur
AuthorGeoffrey Ashe
ISBN0905649699
Myths, legends & literary mysteries mix with maps, relics & historical facts in "The Discovery of King Arthur." Scholars, students & general readers of all ages have wondered for centuries about whether Britain was ever really ruled by an Arthur who held court at a place called Camelot....
The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History
AuthorColin McEvedy
ISBN0140512497
A delightful, irreverent romp through the Dark Ages and medieval history, and if that sounds oxymoronic, all the better to drive home what a gem this little book is. Straight to my favorites shelf.

To start, since it is billed as an atlas, yes, there are maps, elegant, minimalist and well-designed...
The Medieval World Complete
AuthorRobert Bartlett
ISBN0500283338
The Medieval World Complete re-creates one of the great ages of European civilization through a sequence of spectacular images accompanied by a lively, informed commentary. Organized by topic and thoroughly cross-referenced, this comprehensive volume enables the reader to explore and understand...
Giants and Ogres
AuthorTristram Potter Coffin
ISBN0809452383
A series from Time Life Books on myth, superstitions, and legend, brought to life with beautiful illustrations, and written in a fluid like prose that brings to mind a storyteller sitting by a crackling fire sharing his tales.

I remember reading some of the books in this series when I was younger....
The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650
AuthorJohn Robert Morris
A lifetime's scholarship enabled John Morris to recreate a past hitherto hidden in myth and mystery. He describes the Arthurian Age as 'the starting point of future British history', for it saw the transition from Roman Britain to Great Britain, the establishment of England, Scotland, Ireland and...
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