The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight
core novel 2004 The Squire's Tales
Record
| First published | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.20 (2,827 ratings, collected 2026-11-02) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780618378234 |
| Internal chronology | 6 |
Synopsis
Young Sarah is looking for a knight who encouraged villagers to burn her mother and her Jewish foster-father, and she wants revenge. Her search soon crosses with another when she sees Queen Guinevere carried off by the brutal Sir Meliagant. She joins Sir Gawain, his unusual squire Terence and a scruffy loner who is more than he appears, and the group pursues Meliagant towards his enchanted castle. On the way Sarah meets an old woman with a secret, loyal friends, complicated villains and capable women, and she begins to question what vengeance would actually give her. The novel is the sixth in the series and adapts the Arthurian story of Guinevere's abduction.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Squire's Tales
- Series: The Squire's Tales core; position 6 of 10 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Gerald Morris
Notes
- From the series record (The Squire's Tales): Ten humorous Arthurian novels for young readers, following Terence, Gawain and a changing cast at Camelot.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Squire's Tales: position 6 of 10: previous The Ballad of Sir Dinadan (2003) · next The Lioness and Her Knight (2005)
Sources
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