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El Cid
Par Victor G. Ambrus, Geraldine McCaughrean. 1989
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Classiques (romans)Europe (histoire), Histoire (biographies), Europe (voyage et géographie)
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Recounts the feats and adventures of the legendary medieval Spanish hero El Cid--from his banishment from court to his battles…
with the Moors in southern Spain to his capture of the stronghold of Valencia and his last journey. For grades 5-8. 1989The boy's King Arthur: Sir Thomas Mallory's history of King Arthur and his knights of the round table (Illustrated Classics Ser.)
Par Thomas Malory, N. C. Wyeth, Sidney Lanier, N. C. Wyeth. 1952
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Fables, fées (contes de), folklore (légendes), Classiques (romans)Histoire (biographies)
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Contains tales of chivalry, combat, honor, tournaments, the Holy Grail, and the death of King Arthur. Featuring Arthur, Launcelot, Tristram,…
Gareth, Galahad, Percival, and the other legendary members of the Round Table. For grades 5-8. 1880The Yellow Briar: A Story of the Irish on the Canadian Countryside
Par Michael Gnarowski, Patrick Slater. 2008
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Classiques (romans), Littérature générale (romans)Canada (histoire)
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Folktale, memoir, fiction, literary hoax, The Yellow Briar is all of these. Ostensibly the charming remembrance of an Irish orphan…
who escapes the Great Famine of 1840s Ireland and comes to the New World to seek a fresh start on the streets of Toronto and in the pioneer hinterland of Canada West (Ontario), the book was actually a fictional humbug perpetrated by John Mitchell, a Toronto lawyer, who first published the tale in 1933. Patrick Slater, the protagonist of the "memoir," is said to have died in 1924 but not before setting his saga down on paper. And what an account it is! The Globe and Mail felt that the book "gives a picture of Ontario to be found in no other work of fiction we know and has won for itself a permanent place in Canadian literature." If nothing else, Slater/Mitchell captures perfectly the lilt of the Irish and the wry wisdom of an old soul to paint an affecting portrait of trials and tribulations in a long-ago time.