To the Chapel Perilous (Paperback)

In his 1999 Introduction to the first reprint of this novel from 1955 - a year of the Cold War that began with the Baghdad Pact and ended with the official start of the Vietnam War - Raymond H. Thompson described Naomi Mitchison's contribution to the Arthurian tradition as 'not only a comic masterpiece, but a guidebook into spiritual growth'. She achieves this by drawing on her own experience as a journalist to explore the fantastic events surrounding King Arthur and the Holy Grail through the eyes of two young reporters - on competing newspapers, with mid-twentieth century values and skills - as they follow the breaking stories and conflicting accounts of the grail quest. Michael Amey, who writes the Introduction to this new edition, points out that her approach was not universally liked by her fellow writers. Tolkien for one objected to her introduction of 'a curious and disturbing blend' of journalists and 'dwarfs with photographic apparatus'. Amey himself argues that To the Chapel Perilous is in name and fact a 'call to adventure' in which Mitchison sets out 'to tell a story of how stories are told'.

General

Imprint:	Kennedy & Boyd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Naomi Mitchison Library, 52
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	Naomi Mitchison
Introduction by:	Michael D. Amey
Interviewees:	Raymond H. Thompson
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	196
ISBN-13:	978-1-84921-221-2
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-84921-221-X
Barcode:	9781849212212

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