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What it's about
A green giant rides into Arthur's Christmas feast and offers a beheading game; Gawain accepts, and a year later must seek him out to receive the return blow, passing a test of courtesy and honour on the way. Jessie Weston's 1898 modern-prose retelling of the fourteenth-century poem, in its four original fitts.
Reading plan
Pick a finish date and Genius lays out the days — the plan shows today's target and keeps you honest.
Read together
Start a circle and share the code — everyone sees everyone's honest place in the book. Accountability, not leaderboards.
Who it's for
- Readers who want the best of the Arthurian romances in plain modern prose - Anyone drawn to stories about keeping your word when it costs you - Students meeting Middle English literature for the first time
