Armstrong, Dorsey
Summary: For more than 1,000 years, stories of King Arthur and his knights have fascinated people from all different walks of life. What is it about this story that has given it such enduring popularity? What are the themes and ideals of Arthurian legend that have appealed to so many people across time and space? In this 24-lecture course, you will learn about the origins and development of Arthur's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 KINGreen, Roger Lancelyn
Summary: A legend is born when young Arthur meets Merlin and draws the mighty sword from its stone. Join King Arthur and the adventures of his Knights, from the quest for the Holy Grail to the final tragedy of the last battle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRESummers, Portia
Summary: The legend of King Arthur has been told for generations. It epitomizes a mythical time when kings and knights lived in castles and went on quests, when damsels needed saving, and magic lurked around every corner. This book will bring the legend of King Arthur to light and allow readers to learn about the different stories that surround King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Readers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 942 SUMSummary: It is the Middle Ages, and nothing is more feared in England than Viking warriors. In one of many raids, Viking leader Ragnar kills the English king and forces himself on the Queen. With the King dead, his brother takes the thrown but unknown to anyone but a trusted servant, the Queen is now with child. In order to protect the boy, he is sent away to be raised in safety away from the new King....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE VIKSummary: The legend of King Arthur is one of the most evocative stories in British mythology. We think of the romantic King, with his beautiful wife Guinivere by his side and the trusty sword Excalibur in his hand. The truth, we discover, is very different. The story was written in the medieval period but it was set hundreds of years earlier, in the Dark Ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ARTShakespeare, William
Summary: Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline, is persecuted by her wicked stepmother, the Queen, and by Cloten, the Queen's doltish son. Disguised as a boy, she sets out to find her husband, the banished Posthumus.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arkangel Productions 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAWhite, T. H. (Terence Hanbury)
Summary: The complete The Once and Future King, White's retelling of the Arthurian legend, is made up of five books: The sword in the stone, The witch in the wood, The ill-made knight, The candle in the wind, and The Book of Merlyn. In the first book, Merlyn instructs Arthur and his brother Sir Kay in the ways of the world. One of them will need it-- the king has died leaving no heir, and a rightful one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks Ltd. 2008
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Summary: Retells the legend of King Arthur as perceived by the women central to the tale, from the zealous Morgaine, sworn to uphold her goddess at any cost, to the devout Gwenhwyfar, pledged to the king but drawn to another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Pub. Group 2000
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Summary: Arthur is king, but darkest evil has descended upon Britain's shores in many guises. Fragile alliances fray and tear, threatening all the noble liege has won with his wisdom and his blood. In this black time of plague and pestilence, Arthur's most trusted counselor Myrddin -- the warrior, bard, and kingmaker whom legend will name Merlin -- is himself to be tested on a mystical journey through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: Tells the story of Arthur's desperate attempt to triumph over a ruined marriage, the Saxons' determination to destroy him, and of Merlin and Nimue's dangerous quest to summon the Gods back to Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLSummary: A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which tragedy occurs when an old king prematurely divides his kingdom between his daughters in the vain hope that they will care for him in his old age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINCornwell, Bernard
Summary: In Dark Age Britain, a land from which Arthur has been banished and Merlin has disappeared, a child-king sits unprotected on the throne, and it is up to Arthur, a courageous and honorable man, to preserve the lonely embers of civilization in a barbaric world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CORCornwell, Bernard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHYCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: In this Arthurian novel that goes beyond the traditional legend of romance and chivalry, Arthur is convincingly presented as a man of honor, loyalty, and amazing valor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CORFife, Graeme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.01 FIFShakespeare, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 999 ShaTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: The world first publication of a previously unknown narrative poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.912 TOLSummary: "An exploration of the questions and mysteries that have puzzled scholars and experts about the legends of King Arthur, the Roundtable, and his knights. Features include a map, fact boxes, biographies of famous experts on Arthurian legend, places to see and visit, a glossary, further readings, and index"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 942 LEGChristian, Catherine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf : distributed by Random House 1979
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Summary: To achieve his dream of creating a peaceful union of England's divided fiefdoms, the mystical village sage Merlin finds and trains the misbegotten young Arthur, whose birth was prophesied by Merlin's father, Taliesin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Pub. House 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWMoore, Christopher
Summary: Pocket, King Lear's fool, sets out to straighten out the mess the mad king has made of the kingdom and the royal family, only to discover the truth about his own heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009