The Legends of King Arthur and his Knights: With 21 Illustrations and a Free Audio File.

The great King Arthur is a legendary British sovereign who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early sixth century. This book is chock-full of entertaining adventures involving knights in shining armour; damsels in distress, fierce jousting and sword fights to the death, battles against hoards of enemies, giants, dragons, tournaments, witches, magic, and miracles.

These ancient legends are a must-read – who hasn't heard of King Arthur and the knights of his Round Table? In this book, you meet the magician Merlin, and the brave knight's Sir Lancelot, Sir Gareth, Sir Tristam, Sir Bors, Sir Key, and Sir Galahad. All the old favourites are included; Arthur drawing the sword out of the stone, receiving the sword Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake, becoming emperor, his marriage to Guinevere, the fight of the dragons, the four witch queens, the quest for the Holy Grail, and many, many more...

Highlights of this edition are:

• A free online audio file of the complete book. (Downloadable).
• 21 original illustrations.
• It is formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your Nook reader.
• An active (easy to use) Table of Contents listing every chapter accessible from the Nook menu.
• Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Nook's Text-to-Speech features.
• Plus About the Author section.
• 429 pages in the Nook format.

This book is unabridged and appears as it was first intended. First published in 1895.