Littlelot and the Rescue of Gwenevere: Littlelot, #1

By Stephen Wendell

An Arthurian legend with knights and damsels and other action figures.

 

In his game of make-believe, a boy must make a choice—break his oath to the king or break the heart of the woman who gave him the most meaningful gift.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Peregrine Publishing
• Release date: Aug 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9791096666553

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Littlelot and the Rescue of Gwenevere

Peregrine Publishing

www.stephenwendell.com

Copyright © 2022 Stephen Wendell

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Previously published under the title The First Story of Littlelot, 2016. Published 2022.

First Edition

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Illustration credits appear in their respective captions.

Cover illustration: He rode his way with the queen unto Joyous Gard by N. C. Wyeth. See also frontispiece.

ISBN 979-10-96666-55-3

Shaping the stories of your life into a mythology gives you purpose; ensuring those stories are worthy of inspiring others gives it meaning.

—James A. Owen, The Grand Design

CONTENTS

Illustrations

Preface

Lancelot

Gwenevere

Maleagant

The Joust

The Dilemma

The Feast

About the Author

Littlelot and the Real Monster

ILLUSTRATIONS

He rode his way with the queen unto Joyous Gard frontispiece

How Sir Lancelot fought with a fiendly dragon

How Queen Guenever rode a-Maying into the woods and fields beside Westminster

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

This knight he served as he had done the other

Lancelot and Guinevere

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Preface

The valiant knight in shining armor rides a resplendent steed on dangerous adventures. He surmounts overwhelming obstacles, rights terrible wrongs, and rescues the damsel in distress.

That’s what I want to be when I grow up!

Alas, I was born centuries too late. As were you, Young Reader, if such might be your own grown-up ambition. Left to us in our times are stories of those chivalric heroes, models that we may yet apply to our modern lives.

The quintessential tale of noble knights is that of