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'Thomas of Reading' was first published in the 1590s but is set nearly 500 years earlier, around 1106, when Henry and Robert, the two surviving sons of William the Conqueror, fought over the kingdom of England and the duchy of Normandy. The free editions online are reproductions with Ss that look like Fs and interchangeable Us and Vs, but if you can get used to that, the language will seem straightforward compared with Deloney's contemporary Shakespeare.
It's a short and lively story involving mu ...more
It's a short and lively story involving mu ...more
This is the oldest piece of literature I have yet read, being from 1600, and besting Gulliver's Travels by about 125 years. It's included in the later editions of "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die". The spellings are certainly a challenge but it gets easier as one reads farther and accustoms to it. It is made fairly tolerable by it's short length. It was kind of fun to read something from so long ago. It even has a horror story chapter in it which I thought the most interesting: "How Thom
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Three stars but only because the old English was so difficult for me to read that trying to grasp what was going on and being said proved difficult for me. Despite the short length of the book it took me nearly a month to finish it because I could only grasp small bits of a time. For the most part I believe I understood the story- it just took me time to get through it
This will put you right to sleep.
The language is TOUGH.
It seems like it could be very witty & a good story if you could get past the langage - I just couldn’t.
The language is TOUGH.
It seems like it could be very witty & a good story if you could get past the langage - I just couldn’t.
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