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These stories are about how, many years ago, Arthur the once and future King of England, set out to save his country from the troubles that plagued it, aided by the brave knights of the Round Table, and the most famous sword in the world, Excalibur. How Merlin the Wizard fought against the wicked Morgana le Fay's enchantments, and how Arthur loved and lost the beautiful Guinevere, his Queen.

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(P)1997 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd.; ©1997 NAXOS AudioBooks Ld. Action & Adventure Classics Literature & Fiction Arthurian Fiction Royalty

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King Arthur never gets old! Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is my favourite story!

Timeless!!

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Although greatly condensed, this version captures the essence of the Arthurian Legends. The wonderful narration by Sean Bean, and the atmospheric music kept me griped all the way through. I shall enjoy listening to this again and again. Well worth a credit!

Timeless story beautifully told

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I loved it the narrator was very talented my favourite part was when Arthur found the sword

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It’s a good initial history lesson on King Arthur if you want to know the main story

Short and too the point

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Got this after remembering how much I loved this story when growing up as a child. Brilliant not having to swap cassettes!! Sean Bean is his typical brooding self and the perfect voice for this darkly magical anthology of tales of King Arthur. It's a fairly short collection, which is good as not overly detailed but certainly leaves me wanting to delve a little deeper into certain aspects of the characters and stories.

Loved it as a child, love it now

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I loved this version of the King Arthur story. The music really added to it, and the reader was perfect.

Beautiful Retelling

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A great story from medival times. I liked also the reader but sometimes he makes some strange stops.

Love it

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Would you listen to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table again? Why?

Yes and actually I'm now listen to it again. The backgroud music fit the story well and it's just enjoyable. Also the words using are kind of easy. As English is not my first language, I can't get the language in many other books and becoming tired quickly. This book, however, really make me feel concentrated and I get most parts of the story.

What did you like best about this story?

First part when Arthur stay near the river, feeling unfair that Kay will become a knight while he won't, and Merlin come and call his name, and he ask Merlin if Merlin know his parents. Second part when Merlin ask him for the sword excarliba (Sorry I don't know how to spell that word, I mean the sword form the lake), which part do Arthur like more, the blade or the scabbard, and tell him the sword should be return before his death; and the third part when Arthur nearly deas and ask a knight whose name's Bedivire (sorry again for don't know how to spell) throw the sword to the lake, and that takes the knight 3 times to finish the require. I find these parts impressive.

What does Sean Bean bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Sorry I have never read the book before.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Stories for everyone

Any additional comments?

I start listening this book as a before-sleeping story, but later just find it too interesting to let me sleep. Even if I don't have a high level of English knowledge I still enjoy it. I recomend this book to anyone love stories and find English kind of hard...

nice, easy to listen and interesting stories

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A great adaptation for children: mine had loved seeing the swordplay and action in the TV version of Sharpe and she really enjoyed this re-telling of the story of King Arthur. Very diverting for adults too. Sean Bean very listenable as usual.

Loved by my daughter..

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A classy production and no mistake. The Naxos team have taken an axe to the legends of Camelot and really butchered them in order to make them more child friendly and get the whole thing down to a couple of hours. In doing so they have got rid of all the boring stuff, made Arthur a lot more sympathetic, developed some proper baddies and given the whole thing a marvelous flow that it often lacks. The end result is a brilliantly epic and gripping take on the stories, and I wanted to listen again the minute it finished. Sean Bean's reading is perfect and the atmospheric use of classical music is the icing on the cake. Don't be put off by the target audience being 8 - 13 year olds, this is a truly great listening expireience.

BRILLIANT!

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