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287 pp.
| Front |
August, 2008 |
PaperISBN 978-1-59078-640-6$10.95 New ed. (1960, Walck)
(2)
YA
Upon first meeting Randal, the kennel boy won in a chess game and given to a knight, readers enter and live in the turbulent time of medieval England. Few stories of the Middle Ages bring the whole ritual of knighthood and the life of the feudal manor within the reader's realm as does this one.