Book Description
Had journalists plied their trade in the days of King Arthur, how would they have reported breaking stories like the Quest for the Holy Grail? Or the love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere? Or the fall of the Round Table? In answering these intriguing questions, Naomi Mitchison offers keen and humorous insights into not only how the news is reported, but also how conflicting accounts of the Arthurian story may have grown. The resulting novel, To the Chapel Perilous, is a remarkable work of wit and style.
About the author
Born in 1897, Naomi Mitchison was an English writer of prose, plays, and poetry, as well as a classical scholar and political and educational reformer. Her historical novels of ancient Greece and Rome include THE CORN KING AND THE SPRING QUEEN(1931)and THE CONQUERED(1923. Other notable novels include THE RIB OF THE GREEN UMBRELLA(1960), THE YOUNG ALFRED THE GREAT(1962), and MEMOIRS OF A SPACE WOMAN(1962). A resident of London and of Carradale, Scotland, she died in 1999.
