Knights of the Round Table in numerous Arthurian tales (notably the Post-Vulgate Cycle), but he is most famous as the protagonist in Chrétien de Troyes' first romance, "Erec and Enide". Because of "Erec and Enide"‘s relationship to the Welsh "Geraint and Enid", Erec and Geraint are often conflated or confused. In Chrétien's story, Erec meets his future wife Enide while on a quest to defeat a knight who had mistreated one of Guinevere's servants. The two fall in love and marry, but rumors spread that Erec no longer cares for knighthood or anything else besides his domestic life. Enide cries about these rumors, causing Erec
The Little Wife and Other Stories The Little Wife and Other Stories The Little Wife and Other Stories is a 1935 collection of short stories by William March. Many of the stories were first published in magazines. The title story is set in March's Reedyville, an imaginary town in Alabama. The collection was favorably reviewed in "The New York Times", which praised the "penetrating stories" and their poetic quality, and compared Reedyville to William Faulkner's Jefferson, Mississippi. The stories are ordered chronologically in order of their first publication; March's biographer Roy Simmonds remarks that the quality declines as the book progresses. March had worked for the