Idylls of the King: with full-colour illustrations Kindle Edition

37 evocative illustrations by Gustave Doré, beautifully recreated in colour specially for this editionAlfred, Lord Tennyson’s complete original textThe twelve poems of Idylls of the King were written and published over a 26-year period from 1859 to 1885. Together they retell the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his ideals, his love for Guinevere, the rise and fall of his kingdom and his death at the hands of the traitor Mordred.Gustave Doré’s illustrations for five of the poems were first published in 1867 and 1868. In this orrydian edition they have been sensitively recreated in colour to emphasise the drama and sense of fantasy of Doré’s powerful imagination.Other works with illustrations by Doré, recreated in full colour by Michael Richard Hinton, published by orrydian and available on Amazon, include:Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, ISBN 979-8389896611Dante’s Divine Comedy: Purgatorio, ISBN 979-8390498316Dante’s Divine Comedy: Paradiso, ISBN 979-8390501207Blue Beard and other fairy tales, by Michael Richard Hinton, ISBN 979-8877429444Don Quixote, Volume I, by Miguel de Cervantes. ISBN 979-8850772079Don Quixote, Volume II, by Miguel de Cervantes. ISBN 979-8851437298Gustave Doré’s Bible: The New Testament, ISBN 979-8394485282Gustave Doré’s Bible: The Old Testament, ISBN 979-8397191159Gustave Doré’s Illustrations in Colour, ISBN 979-8883085450Mayhem in the Middle East, ISBN 979-8321918432Paradise Lost, by John Milton, ISBN 979-8392095025The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, ISBN 979-8854975513The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, ISBN 979-8397371063The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ISBN 979-8360274858www.orrydian.co.uk Read more