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One of the most influential storytellers in Western literature, French poet Chr tien de Troyes helped to shape the ever-fascinating legend of King Arthur and the Round Table. Of Chr tien's five surviving romantic Arthurian poems, the last and longest is Perceval, an unfinished... Read Full Overview

This book is translated from the first volume of "Perceval le Gallois ou le contedu Graal"; edited by M. Ch. Potvin for 'La Societe des Bibliophiles Belges' in 1866,1from the MS. numbered 11,145 in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy at Brussels.This MS. I find thus described... Read Full Overview

In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail.

Cline's translation, faithful to the highly synthetic,... Read Full Overview

The first ever translation of the whole of the rich and compelling body of tales contained in Chr tien's poem and its four Continuations.

A translation into English by A. S. Kline Published with illustrations by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (English, 1872-1898) Chr?tien de Troyes' Arthurian Romances, written in the late 12th-century, provide a vital link between the Classical Roman poets, Ovid in particular, and the... Read Full Overview

The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chretien de Troyes' Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chretien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive... Read Full Overview

"Perceval ou le conte du Graal" par Chretien de Troyes. Chretien de Troyes etait un poete francais, considere comme un des premiers auteurs de romans de chevalerie (1135-1183)."

The original version of one of the greatest and most potent of medieval legends.