Diverse Books for a Neighborhood of Readers
how to love a country.jpg

Poetry

J.R.R. Tolkien, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

J.R.R. Tolkien, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

$20.51

Price includes state and local tax. Purchase through this screen for store pickup.

To have this book shipped, please use our partner Bookshop.org

To purchase this title as an audiobook, please use our partner Libro.fm

To find your shopping cart click here: https://www.bigbluemarblebooks.com/cart

Quantity:
Add To Cart

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, AND SIR ORFEO
THREE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH POEMS, WITH TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN

It's Christmas at Camelot and King Arthur won't begin to feast until he has witnessed a marvel of chivalry. A mysterious knight, green from head to toe, rides in and brings the court's wait to an end with an implausible challenge to the Round Table: he will allow any of the knights to strike him once, with a battle-axe no less, on the condition that he is allowed to return the blow a year hence. Arthur's brave favorite for the challenge is Sir Gawain...

Accompanying Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in this book are Sir Orfeo, a medieval version of the story of Orpheus and Euridice, a love so strong that it overcame death, and Pearl, the moving tale of a man in a graveyard mourning his baby daughter, lost like a pearl that slipped through his fingers. Worn out by grief, he falls asleep and dreams of meeting her in a bejewelled fantasy world.

Interpreted in a form designed to appeal to the general reader, J.R.R. Tolkien's vivid translations of these classic poems represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals. This beautifully decorated text includes as a bonus the complete text of Tolkien's acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain.

devotions.jpg

Mary Oliver, Devotions

$21.60
felon.jpg

Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon

$17.23
how to carry water.jpg

Lucille Clifton, edited by Aracelia Girmay, How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

$21.60
the tradition.jpg

Jericho Brown, The Tradition

$18.36
31LUf63R70L._AC_UY327_QL65_.jpg

Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell

$17.28