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Le Morte d'Arthur, Vols 1-2

Thomas Malory

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Jan 13, 2015 El rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: the-novel-project, fantasy, big-effing-books, 15-centurylit

(I read this book as part of a reading project I have undertaken with some other nerdy friends in which we read The Novel: A Biography and some of the other texts referenced by Schmidt.)

This book reads like some jag-off had some time to kill in prison and was just putting words down on paper to keep himself from being super bored.

Oh, wait.

So no one really knows who Thomas Malory was, apparently, which is a story in and of itself much more interesting than this collection of loosely connected tho ...more

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Dec 29, 2012 Lise Petrauskas rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: door-stops, britain, the-novel-a-biography

From Caxton's introduction:

"And for to pass the time this book shall be pleasant to read in, but for to give faith and believe that all is true that is contained herein, ye be at your liberty..."

First thoughts, to be continued...

How great was it that, after a fun but repetitious 750 pages (the edition I read was 938 pages), the climax of this book was actually pretty suspensful. I'm a sucker for knights and ladies and horses already, and add to that all the cool language, "he went a great wallop ...more

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