Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart
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# Romances Arthuriennes

Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart

Chrétien de Troyes
3.56
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In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English language readers the fourth of Chrétien’s five surviving romantic Arthurian poems. This poem was the first to introduce Lancelot as an important figure in the King Arthur legend.
Genres: PoetryArthurianFictionFantasyFranceSchoolFrench LiteratureRomanceMythologyLiterature
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