The Grail legends have been appropriated by novelists as diverse as Umberto Ecoand Dan Brown yet very few have read for themselves the original stories fromwhic... » 

The Grail legends have been appropriated by novelists as diverse as Umberto Ecoand Dan Brown yet very few have read for themselves the original stories fromwhich they came. All the mystery and drama of the Arthurian world are embodiedin the extraordinary tales of Perceval Gawain Lancelot and Galahad in pursuitof the Holy Grail. The original romances full of bewildering contradictionsand composed by a number of different writers dazzle with the sheer wealth oftheir conflicting imagination. In Nigel Bryants hands this enthrallingmaterial becomes truly accessible. He has constructed a single consistentversion of the Grail story in modern English which reasserts its relevance asone of the great and enduring works of literature. Nigel Bryants previousArthurian books include The High Book of the Grail Perlesvaus Chretien deTroyes Perceval and its continuations and Robert de Borons Merlin and theGrail. «