Arthur, High King of Britain
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Arthur, High King of Britain
Michael Morpurgo
From the good jumping-off place of a boy slipping back into the past where he meets the legendary merlin, Morpurgo launches into his retellings of the great stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Young Arthur pulling the sword from the stone; the finding of beautiful Queen Guinevere; the different tests of the different knights and the ultimate betrayal by Lancelot are all covered in this accessible version in which the stories rather than the complex morality of chivalry and courtly love dominate. Morpurgo paces the stories well and his calm reading of them makes attractive listening.