{"product_id":"9780007375929_sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-with-pearl-and-sir-orfeo","title":"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: With Pearl and Sir Orfeo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Translated by J. R. R. Tolkien","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47275080548501,"sku":"9780007375929","price":23.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007375929.jpg?v=1776889776","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007375929_sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-with-pearl-and-sir-orfeo","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}