The Knights of the Round Table: Stories of King Arthur and the Holy Grail

Here are the tales that built a kingdom in the popular imagination. This late-Victorian collection gathers the legendary stories of Camelot: the boy who pulled Excalibur from the stone, the knights who swore loyalty at the Round Table, the doomed love between Lancelot and Guinevere, and the gravest quest of all the search for the Holy Grail. The book opens at Glastonbury Tor, where a narrator wanders with Helen and her mother through the very ground where legend says Arthur sleeps, awaiting his return. These are adventure stories wrapped in medieval code honor, where knights fight not just for glory but for something like the soul of England itself. The writing carries the romantic sweep of an age rediscovering its medieval past, giving us both the high drama of battlefield betrayal and the quiet mystery of a chalice hidden in shadow. For readers who grew up dreaming of armored figures and enchanted swords, this is where those dreams were first given shape in the modern age.