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Article: Morris, Gerard. The quest of the fair unknown.(Brief article)(Book review)(Children's review)
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- September 1, 2006
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MORRIS, Gerard. The quest of the fair unknown. (The Squire's Tales.) Houghton Mifflin. 264p. c2006. 0-618-63152-0. $16.00. JS
Back to the Arthurian legends, this time one about Beaufils (fair son), who is a kind of holy fool determined to join the Knights of the Round Table in search of The Holy Grail. (Will we ever think of The Holy Grail again without The Da Vinci Code in our heads?) Morris, who is a minister and thus interested in sacred journeys, turns the whimsical humor we are familiar with from others in this series to a quest for something spiritual and unknown. He explains in an afterword that this idea of a pilgrimage or quest was not unusual in the ...