The Story of Jack and the Giants

By Richard Doyle

This book is a retelling of a Cornish fairy tale and legend called 'Jack the Giant Killer'. The tale is set during the reign of King Arthur and tells of a young Cornish farmer's son named Jack who is not only strong but so clever he easily confounds the learned with his penetrating wit. Jack encounters a livestock-eating giant called Cormoran and lures him to his death in a pit trap. Jack is dubbed 'Jack the Giant-Killer' for this feat and receives not only the giant's wealth, but a sword and belt to commemorate the event.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Apr 11, 2021
• ISBN: 4064066444105

Richard Doyle

Richard Doyle is an old-school SF fan who began writing seriously in 2001. He has a Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and collaborated on a book in 2006. He has had poems published in the UK poetry magazines Orbis and Sarasvati and  is a regular member of the Bristol Stanza Poetry Group. His debut pamphlet The death of the sentence was published in 2020. Two of his poems appear in the Bristol Stanza pamphlet The Weather Indoors (2021).

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Richard Doyle

The Story of Jack and the Giants

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066444105

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URING the reign of good King Arthur there lived in the County of Cornwall, near to the Land’s End of England, a wealthy farmer, who had an only son named Jack. Jack was a brisk boy, and of a ready wit: he took great delight in hearing stories of Giants and Fairies, and used to listen eagerly while any old woman told him of the great deeds of the brave Knights of King Arthur’s Round Table.

When Jack was sent to take care of the sheep and oxen ​in the fields, he used to amuse himself with planning battles and sieges, and the means to conquer or surprise a foe. He was above the common sports of children; but hardly any one could equal him at wrestling; or if he met with a match for himself in strength, his skill and address always made him the victor.

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