King Arthur: Tales from the Round Table by Andrew Lang

King Arthur: Tales from the Round Table Reviews

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  Tyas

  If you're new to the world of Arthurian legends, this is a good introduction.
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  bLueeekun

  Kral Arthur efsanesini izlediğim yapımlardan sağdan soldan okuduğum şeylerden az çok biliyorum. Kitap parça parça bize hikaye anlatıyor. Belki de hiç duymadığımız kişilerin bile hikayesini okuyoruz. Genel olarak kitaptan memnun kaldım ancak üç karakteri anlatan hikayelerin yetersiz veya neredeyse hiç olmaması bana garip geldi.
  
  Bunların birincisi Morgana. Bu arada bunları az buldum dedim ama gerçekte bütün efsane hikayelerinin hepsi kitapta varmıdır yok mudur bilmiyorum. İkinci karakter ise Merlin. Merlin'in Arthur'la olan ilişkisini az çok biliyoruz. Arthur'un en iyi dostu olarak biliniyor diye biliyorum ama gelin görünki adam akıllı bir hikayesi yok. Üçüncü kişi ise belki çok şaşıracaksınız, Kral Arthur. Arthur'la ilgili bildiğimiz her şey burada var. Excalibur, Gölün Hanımı, kayadan kılıç çıkarması falan. Ben daha fazla hikaye olmasını isterdim ama çok fazlası malesef yok. Tekrarlıyorum sonuçta bu bir efsane ve hepsi bu kitapta mıdır değil midir bilemiyorum. Her şeye rağmen okunabilir. Oldukça ilgi çekici ve kendisini çok rahat bir şekilde okutturuyor.
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  Belen (f.k.a. La Mala ✌)

  3.5
  
  A pesar de la prosa simple (es un libro para wachines mi edición) y de la esperada glorificación exagerada a los santos de la espada, Arturo es LA leyenda, y los caballeros de la mesa redonda son sus dignos profetas; cada uno con historia propia, con damsel in distress o sin ella, pero siempre con la espada lista y el corazón puesto en el Rey.
  
  Y, ante todo, el Bro Code y Bro's before Ho's- que en esa época se conocía como el Code of Chivalry, claro.
  
  P.D. ¿Soy muy cliché si digo que Sir Lancelot fue mi personaje favorito? ¿Es evitable semejante preferencia?
  
  [Reseña pendiente]
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  Fadikuş

  Ahh be iki gözümün çiçeği lancelot, neden bu ihanet?
  Morgana ve Merlin çok geri planda kalmış bence. Nerede o eğlenceli şakalar ve büyüler yapan Merlin?
  O değilde çok eskiden izlediğim bir dizi vardı ve guinevere orada hizmetçi rolündeydi. Burada ise bir kralın kızı. İronik olmuş güldüm. :))
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  Morgan Giesbrecht

  If you enjoy damsels in distress, swooning lords and ladies, and constantly fighting knights, this is definitely the story for you.
  
  I listened to this book as an audio while reading a different copy of King Arthur’s stories at the same time. One thing I found was that some of the stories are recounted with different details, so it was unique to see the different accounts.
  
  While the real King Arthur lived in the 600s, his stories are all told in a very medieval/crusade era, which was oddly compelling.
  
  In terms of characters, Sir Lancelot or Sir Galahad may be considered the best knights, but personally, I am a Sir Gareth fan. :)
  
  One thing that I find rather humorously strange is that no one seems to recognise their family members. So many of the knights were brothers or cousins or some such relation, and they were always “unknown to their brethren” or some such nonsense. But it was comical at times, though unrealistic at others.
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  Stephanie Stoll

  A good intro to the King Arthur legends.
  
  This book is one of the read alouds that came with our Sonlight homeschool curriculum. This edition, the Dover Evergreen Classics edition, has 28 illustrations by H.J. Ford. The illustrations are in black and white, but are lovely and detailed.
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  Ninja_raptor

  The book was ok because the adventures that King Arthur went on were nice. The letters were a bit too small for me. Maybe I will read it again when I am older in the future.
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  Dorothy

  A great story that was written horribly!
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  Gary Hoggatt

  King Arthur: Tales from the Round Table is Dover Evergreen Classic's 2002 adaptation of folklorist Andrew Lang's 1902 The Book of Romance. King Arthur consists of 13 separate stories chronicling King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Lancelot, and other Knights of the Round Table. A few of the stories are great, and others are only okay. One fantastic aspect of the volume that runs throughout are the illustrations from the original publication by H.J. Ford.
  
  One thing that must be kept in mind is that these stories are from a 1902 collection of much older folklore. As such, the style is not what a modern reader may be used to. For example, characterization and motivation are given little attention, and much of the action you'd expect from a book about knights questing is missing. Most battles are generally summed up in the text as "The two knights fought for an hour before Sir Lancelot dealt a blow to the helm to his opponent, who then yielded."
  
  My favorite story from the collections is "What Beaumains asked of the King." At 36 pages, it is the longest single narrative of the book (more pages are given to the Quest for the Holy Grail, but those pages are split between several stories). In this tale, a humble young man comes to Arthur's court, refusing to give his true name. He asks to be knighted and aide a woman who has come seeking aid for her sister who is besieged in her castle. Beaumains ventures forth to rescue the sister, defeating foes along the why as the woman scoffs at the lowly person sent to help her sister, unaware of Beaumains' true nobility.
  
  As mentioned, I really enjoyed the engravings by H.J. Ford. His 28 illustrations do much to bring the story to life, and portray the characters and setting in a very romantic light. Almost every story gets at least one illustration, and the longer ones include several. I'd actually say that Ford's art is my favorite part of the book. It's just so evocative of the source material.
  
  Overall, this is an interesting book for someone who isn't very familiar with the Round Table tales. There isn't as much depth as there could be to the stories, but perhaps that's more in keeping with the original stories, as opposed to modern expectations. The art, however, is definitely well done and makes the volume worthwhile. I'm very happy Dover included the original artwork when issuing King Arthur: Tales from the Round Table.
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  Zachary Cawthon

  King Arthur: Tales from the Round Table had some fascinating stories not normally shared in everyday history lessons about the period. The tales provided a understanding of the adventures of King Arthur and his knights and also how King Arthur grew up and became king along with the background stories to the knights. Many fables revolve around such things as magic and many impossible tasks that cannot take place. These tales are supposed to represent the actual happenings of the King and his knights. Sir Lancelot du Lake, Sir Mordred, Merlin the Wizard, and Morgan la Fay and many other important characters that are all included in the stories to give the tales a richer cast of characters. I would recommend this book to anyone of any age because even as a bedtime story to little ones it is a great read to learn some history and to expand the mind. An added bonus is it's an easy read, no difficult vocabulary, and the plot is easy to follow.
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  Andre Piucci

  "The sword itself he put in a magic stone, which floated down the stream to Camelot, that is now called Winchester.
  (...) and said Arthur: far more grievous to me is the loss of my good Knights, than of my Queen; for Queens I might have in plenty, but no man had ever such a company of Knights."
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  Johannes Kristian

  Own. Christmas present from Uncle Geoff.
  
  That was a good book!
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  Orpheus

  Maya Kitap'ın Mitolojik Hikayeler dizisinden ilk kitabı Britonların mitolojisi Kral Arthur'a ayrılmış. Bu ve ikinci kitapta da kapak tasarımı ve renk seçimi çok güzel, bu işlerle ilgilenen insanları özellikle tebrik etmek isterim.
  Kitap dört kısımdan oluşuyor, dört kısım da Arthur'un ve meşhur Yuvarlak Masa Şövalyeleri'nin çeşitli cesurluklarını anlatıyor. Başlangıç olarak Arthur'un kral oluşu ve efsane kılıç Excalibur anlatılmış, bitiş olarak da Arthur'un ölümü ele alınmış.
  İçerik olarak bu mitolojiyi anlamaya yetecek kadar bilgi var, ama derinlemesine öğrenmek istiyorsanız daha eski kaynaklara başvurmanız gerekecek. Bu kitap yatmadan önce ya da boş bir vakitte okunacak kadar basitleştirerek ve genellemesine anlatmış mitolojiyi. Kötü bir özellik değil asla, çoğumuzun işine yarayacak bir şey bu.
  Yazarın dili yeterince akıcı, çeviri kusursuz. Baştan sona macera ve biraz da gerçeklik dolu bir kitap arıyorsanız, bunları yaparken bir yandan da Arthur'u tanımak istiyorsanız bu kitap sizi bekler.
  Keyifli okumalar dilerim.
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  غنية

  This was a gift from my good friend Naila. '' To the sweetest girl I've ever met, Naila 2017.11.05'' you wrote : )
  Very like children book from the cover, you'd think But NOOO, anything but that! A dark story with a darker ending. The thing about this book that it doesn't particularly dive deeply in the story of King Arthur and Excalibur the legendary sword but rather narrates the adventures of the round table knights in a set of short stories among which entertained me most are Sir Lancelot's and his son Sir Galahad's ...yep that's all x). Others are the stories of Queen Guenevere and MERIN the wizard. Oh, Merin... sadly he had to depart us at the very beginning T-T.
  I'm not sure if I'll be reading King Arthur's tales again, I mean I like the concept of it and the enchanted sword but come on! the adventures are a LITTLE BIT OVERRATED...
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  Lee Bartholomew

  Given someone says most of these are from 1902 or a collection from. Makes sense given the sort of old American or that sort of English it is written in. As it's not modern. It's not Old English but somewhere in between. It's harder to read until about Lancelot and Guinevere bit and then it flies. Book I have matches this cover with an ISBN that does not match the cover. Better spoke the cover that is shown for my ISBN is something else. This does not have a 13 # ISBN but is a 1995 reprint, bound and printed in Denmark. Very light paper. For such a small book. Was easy to read in the middle. Took me nearly 24 yrs but I did get to it. Just tales and if you wanna get another book done in your goal on goodreads why not :)
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  Mert

  Puanım 3/5 (%60/100)
  
  Arthur mitlerine giriş yapmak istiyorsanız güzel bir kitap ama beni hayal kırıklığına uğrattı. Arthur efsaneleri çok keyifli ve ilginç olsa da yazar nasıl olduysa sıkıcı bir şekilde anlatmayı başarmış. Anlatım yüzünden çok keyif aldığım söylenemez ama sevdiğim ve bildiğim hikayeler olduğu için çok kötü puan vermek istemiyorum. Benim favorim Lancelot olduğu için onun Guinevere ile olan hikayesinini görmek de güzeldi. Onun dışında Kutsal Kase arayışı, Nimue, Morgana le Fay'in hikayesinin de olması iyiydi. Hoşuma gitmeyen bir diğer şey de bazı kelimelerin Türkçe çevirisiydi. Dediğim gibi daha önce bilginiz yoksa ve yüzeysel de olsa bir şeyler öğrenmek istiyorsanız güzel bir kaynak olabilir ama zaten Arthur mitlerine hakimseniz çok da beğenmeyebilirsiniz.
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  Bob

  THIS was the King Arthur book I was looking for. This includes all the famous stories: the search for the Holy Grail, Lancelot and Guinevere, Merlin and Nimue, etc. It's all delightfully Medieval, chivalrous and rather bonkers (but it is, after all, Medieval mythology, so it's an alien world to our modern way of thinking: it should be somewhat baffling). The chivalry seems quaint and foreign, as well it should, but it also seems believable and authentic. Parts of the whole thing haven't aged well and don't make much sense to me, but for the most part I quite enjoyed it and was pleased to read it.
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  Erica H

  I read this one for class. I teach a King Arthur unit.
  
  This isn’t my favorite version of the Arthurian legends, but it’s written in a way that is easy for my students to understand. It doesn’t require much scaffolding for basic understanding. They get the idea of the King Arthur story, and we are able to discuss on a deeper level. It leaves out details, but it does get the job done. When I felt it was necessary, I have filled in details for them as we read. The students should be able to recognize allusions to the legends and understand the influence of the stories on Brit lit as they continue their studies.
  
  
  
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  S.S.

  This was a nice collection of tales centring around King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. A lot of the stories are short and quick to read through, which provide a nice introduction to the tales and folklore surrounding the king. I know quite a lot of these tales already because I really like anything King Arthur related. As such, I have read quite a bit about him already; that didn't mar my enjoyment of the book however. It still was nice to refreshify my memory! I really loved the artwork included in this book too. I know I will enjoy this book again in the future.
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  Red

  Curse this story. For I'm not a woman who prays. But may a blessed soul wish for certain individuals from this book a better life on the rebirth they're destined to have.
  
  This story is so sexist in its base form, without meaning it probably, after all, the lore was written long ago, but Gods be damned if I didn't grow to hate Guenevere so much.
  
  I've been writing curses in this book from the get go.
  
  Oh the irony.
  
  From,
  
  One who awaits The One True King's Return
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  Lindri Setyaningrum

  Ga terlalu tebal tapi banyak yang di-skip. Tertarik bagian romancenya aja haha. Hubungan Arthur - Guinevere - Lancelot ini menarik. Terharu ending Lancelot mengantar wanita yang dicintainya ke peristirahatan terakhir di samping suaminya. Noble knight emang :'(
  
  Baca di sela-sela gabut pegawe baru wkwkwk
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  Patrick

  I'm still fairly new to (serious reading of) Arthurian legend. Lang seems to hit most of the major beats (to my knowledge)--and there are great moments that just speed along--but ultimately I found the pacing too slow for my taste here. Still a good, inexpensive version w nice b/w illustrations in the style of the pre-Raphaelites. I'll be beginning Pyle's works next alongside more White.
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  Meri

  It was an okay set of tales regarding King Arthur and the famed Knights of the Round Table, but overall, it was not for me. I found myself drifting off and towards the end, skim reading it which is never a good sign.
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  Lyds Cl

  3.5 - good intro to the stories of King Arthur. Librivox recording and the narrator had a robotic narrative voice so was lacking depth or emotion and seemed to miss a lot of punctuation, almost as if Alexa was reading the book!
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  Dida

  when i bought this, i thought the stories would be centered on King Arthur, but apparently there are different stories about different knights. i think it should’ve been titled “Tales of the Knights of the Round Table” instead.
  
  it’s pretty enjoyable. as someone who has not read much about the legends of King Arthur, it introduced me to many characters I didn’t know before without making me overwhelmed (unlike the Iliad lol).
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  Mandi Almaguer

  cool day read.. because Merlin