Parzival
$29.26
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
1 September 1988
Summary
The great German poem on the completion of the story of the Holy Grail.
Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chretien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King of the Temple of the Grail, which Wolfram describes as a life-giving Stone. As a knight serving the German n…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140443615 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140443614 |
| Author: | Wolfram Eschenbach, A. Hatto |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 September 1988 |
| Weight: | 324g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Wolfram Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach was the greatest of the medieval German poets. Very little is known about his life, but it is generally accepted that he belonged to a Bavarian family of lower nobility. He probably died between 1220 and 1230. A.T. Hatto has translated Tristan and The Nibelungenlied.
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