Le Morte D'Arthur: Volume 2
by Sir Thomas Malory
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 014043044X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140430448
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MALORY, Sir Thomas: Le Morte D'Arthur: Volume 2. Harmondsworth, UK, Penguin, 1978. Reprint. Penguin Books edition originally published in 1969. Paperback, 532 pp. Subject: Literature / Medieval Epics – King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table / Arthurian Legends / Literature Classics. Condition: Good. Evident wear and creasing to the covers. Spine tips show a bit of tearing but has been secured with protective tape. Former owner's name inscribed in the interior of front endpaper. Hole punch at the lower extremity of the reverse cover. Toning to the pages but clean and unmarked. The exploits of King Arthur and his Knights are immortalized in this unified compendium of medieval tales chronicling the life and death of ancient Britain's legendary monarch. Edited by Janet Cowen. ISBN: 014043044X
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reviews
The Norton Critical Edition edition by Stephen Shepherd makes for an ideal presentation of Malory, one that strongly evokes the experience of reading the original Winchester manuscript, but at the same time gives plenty of help for the modern reader. Introduction, explanatory notes and glossary are finely judged. Note that this edition is in original spelling and is unabridged: a lower degree of difficulty can be found in Helen Cooper's abridged, modern-spelling edition (Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics)).
The editor expresses some hesitation (p. xii) over the decision to break the text up into modern paragraphs, and not simply to reproduce the manuscript's placement of paragraph symbols in unbroken text. It's not a big issue, but I for one would have found this method attractive, the bold paragraph symbols (as I imagine) breaking up the text adequately and giving an even more distinctive, manuscript-like feel to it.
The only thing that slightly detracts from the book for me is the typesetting of the verso pages (the left-hand pages of each opening), which goes against traditional practice. Since the text is prose, set justified left and right, the marginal annotations of the left-hand pages could easily have been placed in the outer margin, in a mirror image of the right-hand pages. As it is there is a stark, mostly empty space along the inner edge of the left page, while the text comes to within a few millimetres of the outer edge, disturbing to the eye and leaving no thumb-room. Poetry has to be set this way, of course, with its ragged right edge - and in any case the narrower columns of text are easier to keep clear of the page's edge. But if this is Norton house style for prose, I can't see why it's necessary.
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- The Brooklyn Bookman (US)
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- Title
- Le Morte D'Arthur
- Author
- Sir Thomas Malory
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 014043044X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140430448
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth, UK
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Literature / Medieval Epics – King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table / Arthurian Legends / Literature Classics
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- THE BROOKLYN BOOKMAN – USED, OUT OF PRINT, RARE & COLLECTIBLE BOOKS CATALOG; Classics of World Literature; Literature / Classics;
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