A mysterious knight all in green arrives at King Arthur's court and issues a bizarre challenge. Gawain answers, but at what cost? This new translation of the great adventure from English literature – a magical combination of the epic and the uncanny – keeps all the poetic power of the alliteration of the original Old English. "Masterful reading... These back-to-back renditions are a matchless pleasure, a revelation, and an expansion of the mind and ear."—AudioFile