<p>For hundreds of years the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has been one of the world’s most precious literary possessions. In 1902 the distinguished American artist Howard Pyle undertook to retell this classic. His four-volume work on King Arthur has long been considered one of the outstanding interpretations of the Arthur cycle. This first volume <em>The Story of King Arthur and His Knights</em> conveys the true spirit of the England of that time when Arthur Pendragon was overlord of Britain and Merlin was a powerful enchanter when the sword Excalibur was forged and won and when the Round Table came into being.</p>