6 Top france books like Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations by de Troyes Chrétien

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Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

By: de Troyes Chrétien

4.04

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The Holy Grail has intrigued and inspired countless readers over the centuries since it first appea…

"Fortune has hair in front but is bald behind."

-de Troyes Chrétien, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

"Fortune has hair in front but is bald behind."

-de Troyes Chrétien, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

"The dead with the dead, the living with the living."

-de Troyes Chrétien, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

"The dead with the dead, the living with the living."

-de Troyes Chrétien, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

If you liked the france plot in Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations by de Troyes Chrétien , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Erec and Enide

By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Erec and Enide marks the birth of the Arthurian romance as a literary genre. Written circa 1170, t… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • fiction
  • arthurian
  • medieval
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Doit chascuns panser et antandre A bien dire et a bien aprandre ; Qu'il est louable de s'appliquer à bien dire et à bien enseigner."

-Chrétien de Troyes, Erec and Enide

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2. Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

By: Robert Graves , Thomas Malory , Keith Baines

3.92

Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Presents the story of King Arthur, his knights of the Round Table, the sword Excalibur, and his tra… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • arthurian
  • medieval
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Ah Gawaine, Gawaine, ye have betrayed me; for never shall my court be amended by you, but ye will never be sorry for me as I am for you"

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross."

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place. And men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the the Holy Cr…"

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

"...and then the threw the sword as far into the water as he might; and there came an arm and a hand above the water and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished…"

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

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3. Roman de Brut

By: Layamon , Wace , Eugene Mason

3.77

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The Arthurian Chronicles Roman De Brut is a book that tells the story of King Arthur and his knight… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • fiction
  • arthurian
  • medieval
"Muscle is good, but craft is better"

-Layamon, Roman de Brut

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4. North and South

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

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5. Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion

By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline

3.56

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remar… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • fiction
  • arthurian
  • medieval
  • fantasy
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6. The Song of Roland

By: Unknown , Dorothy L. Sayers

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spa… read more

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  • france
  • mythology
  • fiction
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7. The River Ki

By: Sawako Ariyoshi , Mildred Tahara

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

The River Ki, short and swift and broad like most Japanese rivers, flows into the sea not far south… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Villette

By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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9. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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  • mythology
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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10. The Lais of Marie de France

By: Marie de France , Glyn S. Burgess , Keith Busby

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of … read more

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  • france
  • fiction
  • medieval
  • fantasy
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11. Arthur's Britain

By: Leslie Alcock

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

We are all familiar with the heroic deeds and enchantments of the legendary tales surrounding King … read more

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  • arthurian
  • medieval
  • mythology

12. The Mabinogion

By: Unknown , Jeffrey Gantz

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

On the bank of the river he saw a tall tree: from roots to crown one half was aflame and the other … read more

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13. The Romance of Tristan, The Tale of Tristan's Madness

By: Béroul , None

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

This edition contains perhaps the earliest and most elemental version of the tragic legend of Trist… read more

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14. The Rise of Gawain, Nephew of Arthur: De Ortu Waluuanii Nepotis Arturi

By: Mildred Leake Day

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. read more

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15. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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16. The History of the Kings of Britain

By: Lewis Thorpe , Geoffrey of Monmouth

4.19

Format: 208 pages,

Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britaintraces the story of the realm from its suppos… read more

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17. The Life of Merlin

By: Geoffrey of Monmouth , None

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Geoffrey of Monmouth's Life of Merlin. read more

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18. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

19. Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart

By: Chrétien de Troyes , Burton Raffel , None

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English language readers t… read more

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20. Sir Launfal

By: Thomas Chestre

3.40

Format: 153 pages, Library Binding

Sir Launfal is a 1045-line Middle English romance or Breton lay written by Thomas Chestre dating fr… read more

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  • fantasy
  • mythology
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21. Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

By: de Troyes Chrétien

4.04

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The Holy Grail has intrigued and inspired countless readers over the centuries since it first appea… read more

Similar categories in de Troyes Chrétien's Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations book and de Troyes Chrétien's Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

  • classics
  • france
  • fiction
  • arthurian
  • medieval
  • fantasy
  • mythology
"Fortune has hair in front but is bald behind."

-de Troyes Chrétien, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

"The dead with the dead, the living with the living."

-de Troyes Chrétien, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

"When a man fails to honour ladies, his own honour must be dead."

-de Troyes Chrétien, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

"Any wise man fears open spitefulness, whether it be in seriousness or in jest."

-de Troyes Chrétien, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

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3.62

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Robert Graves , Thomas Malory , Keith Baines

3.92

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Roman de Brut

Layamon , Wace , Eugene Mason

3.77

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North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

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Horace Walpole

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