Rules for a knight : the last letter of Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke /
Ethan Hawke ; illustrations by Ryan Hawke.
- 172 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 19 cm
Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues that provide instruction on how to live a noble life, and on all the lessons, large and small, that he might have imparted to them himself were he not expecting to die on the battlefield.