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Roger Lancelyn Green (1918–1987)

Author of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

85+ Works 11,863 Members 98 Reviews 7 Favorited

About the Author

Roger Lancelyn Green was born in England in 1918, where his family has lived for more than 900 years. He was often sick as a child and spent long periods confined to his room devouring Greek myths, medieval romances, and fairy tales. Green began a lifelong fascination with Greece and Greek culture show more when he first visited that country in 1935. He went on to compile and retell many Greek stories, including "Old Greek Fairy Tales," and "Jason and the Golden Fleece." Green also wrote his own stories, but he is better known for his retellings of folk tales from around the world. Roger Lancelyn Green died in 1987 (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Roger Lancelyn Green

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956) — Author — 2,272 copies
Tales of Ancient Egypt (1967) 1,640 copies
Tales of the Greek Heroes (1958) — Author — 1,636 copies
The Tale of Troy (1958) 678 copies
C. S. Lewis: A Biography (1974) 437 copies
The Luck of Troy (1961) 150 copies
Double Phoenix (1971) 83 copies
Heroes of Greece and Troy (1960) 49 copies
A Book of Myths (1965) 43 copies
The King Arthur Collection (1350) 41 copies
Tellers of tales (1946) 40 copies
A Book of Nonsense (1956) — Editor — 34 copies
Andrew Lang (1946) 25 copies
Tales from Shakespeare (1964) 21 copies
Book of Other Worlds (1976) 14 copies
Ancient Egypt (1963) 14 copies
The Works of Lewis Carroll (1965) 13 copies
Ten Tales of Detection (1967) — Editor — 13 copies
Modern Fairy Stories (1955) 13 copies
Old Greek fairy tales (1958) 13 copies
Thirteen Uncanny Tales (1970) 13 copies
The land beyond the north (1958) 12 copies
Mrs. Molesworth (1961) 10 copies
Tales of Make-Believe (1960) 9 copies
Lewis Carroll (1960) 9 copies
Fifty years of Peter Pan (1954) 8 copies
A.E.W. Mason (1952) 8 copies
Myths From Many Lands (1965) 6 copies
Stories of Ancient Greece (1967) 5 copies
Sir Lancelot of the Lake (1966) 5 copies
Ten Tales of Adventure (1972) 4 copies
Kipling and the children (1965) 4 copies
Folk Tales of the World (1966) 4 copies
Tale of Thebes (1977) 4 copies
The Luck of the Lynns (1952) 3 copies
The Secret of Rusticoker (1953) 3 copies
Two Satyr Plays 2 copies

Associated Works

King Solomon's Mines (1882) — Introduction, some editions — 5,678 copies
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (1845) — Editor, some editions — 4,382 copies
Allan Quatermain (1887) — Introduction, some editions — 817 copies
The Spy's Bedside Book (1957) — Contributor — 353 copies
The Mammoth Book of Arthurian Legends (1998) — Contributor — 195 copies
The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll (1982) — Editor — 145 copies
The Letters of Lewis Carroll: 2 vols. (1979) — Editor — 40 copies
Lewis Carroll observed (1976) — Contributor — 18 copies
Rejser i tid og rum : en bog om science fiction (1973) — Author, some editions — 12 copies
Stories and Poems {Everyman’s Library} (1970) — Editor — 12 copies
The Diaries of Lewis Carroll (1953) — Editor — 10 copies
The Lewis Carroll Handbook (1931) — Editor, some editions — 10 copies
Thin Air: An Anthology of Ghost Stories (1966) — Contributor — 7 copies
Lewis Caroll (1971) — Contributor — 6 copies
Giants! Giants! Giants! (1980) — Contributor — 6 copies
The Diaries of Lewis Carroll, Volume II (of II) (1953) — Editor, some editions — 2 copies
The Ichneutai of Sophocles (The searching satyrs) — Translator, some editions — 2 copies

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I read this in my school days and thoroughly enjoyed the rereading! A Puffin books version written in the 1950s for children. I found this version far superior to the Antonia Fraser volume from the 1960s which may be for a much younger audience, say children versus this effort by Green is more suited to the Young Adult audience.
This version is a great introduction to the Arthur myth in an easier to read language than say Mallory’s Morte D’Arthur, but still keeps very well to the traditional tale. That said modern readers might find the violence and less than sensitive treatment of various social issue a bit confronting these days.… (more)
 
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Independent Reading Level: 5-9 grades

Awards: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
 
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independent reading level: 10+
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Popularity
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Rating
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Reviews
98
ISBNs
225
Languages
11
Favorited
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