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Morte d'Arthur, Le

Volume 1 (The Penguin English Library)

By John Lawlor, Thomas Malory

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| Paperback | 9780140430431

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The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes. No other edition accurately represents the actual (and likely authorial) divisions of the text as attested to by its two surviving witnesses—Caxton's 1485 print and, especially, the famous Continue

The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes. No other edition accurately represents the actual (and likely authorial) divisions of the text as attested to by its two surviving witnesses—Caxton's 1485 print and, especially, the famous Winchester Manuscript. The Winchester Manuscript is now generally agreed to be the more authentic of the two surviving manuscripts. The Norton Critical Edition is the first edition of Malory to recover important elements of this manuscript: paragraphing, marginal annotations, hierarchies of narrative division as signaled by size and decorative intricacy of initial capitals and font changes. The Norton Critical Edition also represents, in black-letter font, the striking rubrication of proper names in the Winchester Manuscript, reconstructing for readers something of an authentic medieval reading experience, one which gives visual support to Malory's extraordinary representation, in character and setting, of a chivalric ideal. No other student edition of Malory contains such extensive contextual and critical support.

About the series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

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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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  • 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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