Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Annotated)

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Beautifully designed and carefully proofed for digital publication, this new edition includes: • Expended Introduction; • New Preface; • A number of detailed footnotes; • Expansive Bibliography; • Complete, unabridged, and formatted text for kindle to improve your reading experience; • Table of Contents with Quick Navigation. An epic poem of honor and bravery written by an unknown fourteenth-century poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is recognized as an equal of Chaucer’s masterworks and of the great Old English poems, including Beowulf. It is Christmas in Camelot, and a truly royal feast has been laid out for King Arthur and his knights. And though there is plenty of good cheer to go around, the festivities hardly begin before a monstrous, axe-wielding, green-skinned knight barges in. He has come to see the famous Knights of the Round Table and offer them a simple but deadly challenge—a challenge taken on by the brave Sir Gawain—a challenge that will force him to choose between his honor and his life...