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One of the most influential storytellers in Western literature, French poet Chretien de Troyes helped to shape the ever-fascinating legend of King Arthur & the Round Table. Of Chretien's five surviving romantic Arthurian poems, the last & longest is Perceval, an unfinished work that introduces the story of the Grail-a legend quickly adopted by other medieval writers & taken up by a continuing succession of authors. In Chretien's romance, Perceval progresses from a naive boyhood in rural seclusion to a position of high respect as a knight at Arthur's court. Acclaimed for sensitive & faithful translations of the poems of Chretien, Burton Raffel completes the Arthurian series with this rendition of Perceval.