Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
A green knight rides into Arthur’s hall at Christmas and offers to take a blow from any knight who will take one back in a year; Sir Gawain accepts, and must go and find him.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 7–11
- First published
- late 1300s
- This edition
- Jessie L. Weston’s prose translation, in four parts; her notes are left out.
- Pages
- 58
- Prompts
- 4, one at the close of each part
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every part of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
The Green Knight laughs at the silent hall, Arthur rises in shame and takes up the axe, and then Gawain asks to take his place, calling himself “the weakest” and “the feeblest of wit.” Number the reasons he gives for asking, in his order. Is he being humble, or sparing the king?
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages58
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts4, one at the close of each part
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
Grades 7–11