Project Gutenberg 2025-05-28 Public domain in the USA. 153 Le Feuvre, Amy 1861 1929 Feuvre, Amy Le Feuvre, Amy le Legend-led Legend led $aLondon :$bThe Religious Tract Society, $c1899. "Legend-led" by Amy Le Feuvre is a children's novel written in the late 19th century. It blends lively domestic adventure with Arthurian playacting and a gentle Christian allegory, following the Thurston siblings—Donald, Claud, and Gypsy—under the easy care of their poetry-loving governess, Miss Gubbins. Central to the tale is Gypsy’s sincere resolve to seek the “Holy Thing” after hearing Tennyson’s Holy Grail, even as the children contend with their awe of their step-brother Victor (“the Ogre”) and befriend a witty, crippled young artist they dub “Sir Perceval.” The setting shifts from a seaside resort to a rambling country house where games, pranks, and moral questions intertwine. The opening of Legend-led introduces the seaside life of the three high-spirited Thurstons, their territorial beach squabbles, and Miss Gubbins’ readings of the Arthurian legends that spark Gypsy’s private quest “to find” Jesus and the Grail. A Sunday beach talk about the “pearl of great price” and a bedroom text (“Those that seek Me early shall find Me”) deepen her resolve; after the family moves to an old Elizabethan house ruled by the formidable housekeeper Mrs. Peck, Gypsy slips out at dawn, kneels in a book-lined room with a stained-glass window, and mistakes its colored light for the Holy Grail. Meanwhile the boys roam, invent the dread “Agony” game, and Claud befriends a humorous, housebound illustrator at a nearby farm whom they nickname Sir Perceval. Victor’s return prompts a disastrous armor prank (Claud is captured and trussed), household changes begin, and Gypsy—allowed to use the library—brings her brothers at dawn only to be laughed at when they recognize the “Holy Thing” as sunlight through glass; soon after, a drive with Victor leads to a reunion with Irene from the beach and a visit to Sir Perceval, whom Victor is considering as a local tutor. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250425033345lefeuvre 1899 GB Reading ease score: 89.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Christian life -- Juvenile fiction Orphans -- Juvenile fiction Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Quests (Expeditions) -- Juvenile fiction Siblings -- Juvenile fiction England -- Juvenile fiction Castles -- Juvenile fiction Governesses -- Juvenile fiction Knights and knighthood -- Juvenile fiction Grail -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Novels Category: British Literature 226699 2025-07-30T06:59:58.282500 text/html 201596 2025-05-28T09:56:45 text/html 1754934 2025-07-30T07:00:02.372525 application/epub+zip 1758664 2025-07-30T06:59:58.966526 application/epub+zip 143891 2025-07-30T06:59:58.569496 application/epub+zip 1837616 2025-07-30T07:00:04.856517 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1822604 2025-07-30T07:00:01.899560 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 207312 2025-07-30T06:59:57.734558 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 187661 2025-05-28T09:56:45 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16106 2025-07-30T07:00:05.005477 application/rdf+xml 23793 2025-07-30T06:59:58.670506 image/jpeg 3103 2025-07-30T06:59:58.612512 image/jpeg 1912825 2025-07-30T06:59:58.340528 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog