Books Like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A nineteenth-century factory boss wakes in Camelot. He sets out to modernize it with gunpowder, newspapers and his own brand of showmanship.
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Mythago Wood
In an English wood after the Second World War, a man finds the forest bringing myths to life from his family's unconscious, including the woman his brother loves.
The Anubis Gates
A scholar of Romantic poetry travels back to 1810 London to hear a lecture by Coleridge. He is stranded among Egyptian sorcerers, beggar kings and a body-switching werewolf.
Three Hearts and Three Lions
A Danish resistance fighter in 1943 is thrown into a world of Carolingian legend, where he is a hero he has forgotten.
The Once and Future King
Arthur grows from the boy Merlyn tutors into the king who founds the Round Table. He then watches the dream break apart.
Grendel
The monster from Beowulf tells his own story. He is lonely, mocking and searching for meaning in the meadhall's songs.
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Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer
A dragon is the real reason King Leonidas and his three hundred died at Thermopylae. Sixty-two years later the gods send a Spartan boy of the agoge to kill it. The book takes lessons from tragedy and the cost of sacrifice, as is the Greek way.