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Title: The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions

Author: Howard Pyle

Release Date: September 10, 2010 [EBook #33702]

Language: English

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The Story of
Sir
LAUNCELOT
and his
Companions

_by_
HOWARD PYLE.

NEW YORK:
Dover Publications, Inc.

Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill
Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.

Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd., 3 The
Lanchesters, 162-164 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 9ER.

This Dover edition, first published in 1991, is an unabridged
republication of the work originally published by Charles Scribner's
Sons, New York, in 1907.

Manufactured in the United States of America. Dover Publications, Inc.,
31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N. Y. 11501

_Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data_

Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911.

The story of Sir Launcelot and his companions / by Howard Pyle.

p. cm.

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Scribner, 1907.

Summary: Follows Sir Launcelot of the Round Table as he rescues Queen
Guinevere, fights in the tournament at Astolat, and pursues other
adventures.

ISBN 0-486-26701-6

1. Lancelot (Legendary character)--Romances. 2. Arthurian romances. [1.
Lancelot (Legendary character) 2. Knights and knighthood--Folklore. 3.
Arthur, King. 4. Folklore--England.] 1. Title.

PZ8.1.P994Sr 1991
843'.1--dc20
[398.2] 90-22326
CIP
AC

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=Foreword.=

_With this begins the third of those books which I have set myself to
write concerning the history of King Arthur of Britain and of those
puissant knights who were of his Court and of his Round Table.

In the Book which was written before this book you may there read the
Story of that ve