A dramatic story of Robin, crippled son of a great lord, who proves his courage and wins his king's recognition—set against a background of fourteenth-century England.

While the plague raged in the city of London, Robin, son of Sir John de Bureford, lay ill in his father's house, crippled by a strange malady. His father had gone off to the wars with the King, his lady mother was in the Queen's service, and Robin was supposed to be en route to the castle in the north where he would serve as a page in his first step toward knighthood.

Brother Luke who rescued him and took him to the hospice of St. Mark's had a hand in Robin's education. So did Brother Matthew, who taught him first how to use wood-carving tools, and John-go-in-the-Wynd, who accompanied Robin and Brother Luke on the long pilgrimage from London through Oxford to the great castle of Lindsay where he eventually learned that there were more ways to serve his king than mounting a horse and riding to battle.

The drama and all the pageantry of medieval life plus the simple realism of the common folkways of that period are all in THE DOOR IN THE WALL. Because she has seen the exteriors and interiors of the churches, castles, and inns that were standing in Robin's day, and because she has the feeling of the land and the people, Marguerite de Angeli has achieved her finest book, both in story and pictures.

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