Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Boston NewYork 2010
Copyright © 2010 by Gerald Morris
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The text of this book is set in Horley Old Style MT.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Morris, Gerald, 1963–
The legend of the king / by Gerald Morris.
p. cm.
Summary: Sir Dinadan and his friends Sir Palomides, Sir Gaheris, Sir Terence, and
other knights of the Round Table and their associates try to stop Mordred and his
White Horsemen from ending King Arthur's rule of Great Britain.
ISBN 978-0-547-14420-7
[1. Knights and knighthood—Fiction. 2. Arthur, King—Fiction. 3. Middle Ages—
Fiction. 4. Great Britain—History—To 1066—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M82785Leg 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2009039316
ISBN 978-0-547-14420-7
Manufactured in the United States of America
DOC 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
4500238620
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned...—W. B. Yeats
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one
supposed...—Walt Whitman
1 The Messengers [>]
2 The Mission [>]
3 The Trap [>]
4 The Siege [>]
5 Questing [>]
6 The Trial [>]
7 A Love Story [>]
8 The Titans [>]
9 The Last Enchantress [>]
10 The Pilgrimage [>]
11 BarhamDown [>]
12 The Beginning of the Story [>]
Envoi [>]
A Cast of Characters [>]