Enrico Groppali Books

Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, this title is packed with incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the Jew, Isaac of York, and his daughter Rebecca; Wamba and Gurth, jester and swineherd respectively.

In this story, of a young man's romantic attachment to an older woman, the modern English reader can appreciate the accuracy, the artistry and the insight which Flaubert reconstructed in one masterpiece.