The Knight of the Cart
5th Edition
Published on 15. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
274 pages
978-1-948338-89-9 (ISBN)
Description
The embittered Sir Meliagaunt is overlooked by King Arthur when a group of new knights, including Gildas of Cornwall, are appointed to the Round Table. In an ill-conceived attempt to catch Arthur's notice, Meliagaunt kidnaps Queen Guinevere and much of her household from a spring picnic and carries them off to his fortified castle of Gorre, hoping to force one of Arthur's greatest knights to fight him in order to rescue the queen.
Sir Lancelot follows the kidnappers, and when his horse is shot from under him, he risks his reputation when he pursues them in a cart used for transporting prisoners. But after Meliagaunt accuses the queen of adultery and demands a trial by combat to prove his charge, Lancelot, too, disappears, and Merlin and the newly-knighted Sir Gildas are called into action to find Lancelot and bring him back to Camelot in time to save the queen from the stake. Now Gildas finds himself locked in a life-and-death battle to save Lancelot and the young girl Guinevere has chosen for his bride.
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Series
Edition
5th ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-948338-89-9 (9781948338899)
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Jay Ruud is a retired professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas with a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature, now devoting much of his time to fiction writing. He has retold the traditional legend of King Arthur for modern readers as a series of Merlin Mysteries: Fatal Feast, The Knight's Riddle, Lost in the Quagmire, The Bleak and Empty Sea, The Knight of the Cart, and To the Great Deep. He's also written scholarly books, including an Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature (2006), A Critical Companion to Dante (2008), and A Critical Companion to Tolkien (2011), as well as the first full-length study of Chaucer's short poems, "Many a Song and Many a Lecherous Lay": Tradition and Individuality in Chaucer Lyric Poetry (1992), a book that was reissued by Routledge in October 2019 after 27 years. He is the author of the Robin Hood Mystery series, Sleuth of Sherwood (June 2022), Ghoul of Sherwood (December 2022), an Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, and book 3, Treasure of Sherwood, which will be published by Encircle in June 2024. For the latest news, visit jayruud.com, and you can follow Jay on Facebook @jay.ruud.author, and on Instagram @GildasOfCornwall.