Proud Knight, Fair Lady

Proud Knight, Fair Lady The Twelve Lays of Marie De France

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Publisher's Synopsis

Collected by Marie de France in the 12th century and retold here by Naomi Lewis, these 12 stories tell of love and honour, chivalry and courage, and beauty and honesty. The tales of knights and strong heroines have never before been published except in academic, scholarly texts.;Naomi Lewis has also written an adaptation of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" and "The Stepsister".

About the Publisher

Hutchinson

Hutchinson

Founded in 1887 by George Hutchinson with capital of three thousand pounds, Hutchinson opened for business in the basement of 25 Paternostor Row, near St Paul's Cathedral. It is the home of fiction that you have to press into the hands of your friends and non-fiction that is entertaining and erudite. We publish bestsellers, Helen Dunmore, Sebastian Faulks, Robert Harris, Douglas Kennedy and Ruth Rendell, book club favourites, Aimee Bender, Anna Quindlen. We are committed to discovering new talent that combine a distinctive voice with great storytelling skills and recent acquisitions include Bonnie Nadzam, longlisted for the Women?s Prize, New York Times bestsellers, Sloane Crosley, Ayana Mathis, Marisha Pessl and Amor Towles.

Book information

ISBN: 9780091735111
Publisher: Hutchinson
Imprint: Hutchinson
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 19
Number of pages: 100
Weight: 566g
Height: 260mm
Width: 200mm