Le Morte d'Arthur

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• Le Morte D'Arthur

  Why review another edition of Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur? The book's been around since the late fifteenth century; most of you will have encountered some portion of the work in school or absorbed its outline through various movies or later works of f ... (read full critics)

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• The cornerstone of modern arthurian literature, here translated by Keith Baines, appears as a long and often repetitive series of duels, wanderings and eventual wars, devoid of character depth and often awkward in its rendition of the ‘matter of Britain’. The best part is the last, the one that give ... (continue)

  The cornerstone of modern arthurian literature, here translated by Keith Baines, appears as a long and often repetitive series of duels, wanderings and eventual wars, devoid of character depth and often awkward in its rendition of the ‘matter of Britain’. The best part is the last, the one that gives the title to the whole work, where Malory tells how Arthur dies warring against the usurper Modred, after Launcelot has torn the Round Table apart because of his love for queen Gwynevere.</p><p>As for the rest, it might interest the scholar but it’s surely best read in the original 15th century version.

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  crus said on Oct 9, 2009 | Add your feedback

• The cover shows a detail from 'The Marriage Of Arthur', an illumination from the fifteen-century Chroniques de Hainaut, copyright Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles

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  scatterkeir said on Jan 27, 2008 | Add your feedback

• Pretty dire but I bought it having indexed a book on the Grail theme. (The book I indexed was pretty dire too)

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  PossMan said on Sep 4, 2006 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 992 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0375753222
• ISBN-13: 9780375753220
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Pub date: Feb 22, 1999
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Unbound, Others and eBook

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