Le Morte Darthur (Norton Critical Editions)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (760 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393974642 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1008 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in, delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose."--Robert Graves
Ian Myles Slater on: A Worthwhile Edition (Well, Perhaps Not For All Readers) A reviewer can propose, but only Amazon disposes.Way back in 200Ian Myles Slater on: A Worthwhile Edition (Well, Perhaps Not For All Readers) Ian M. Slater A reviewer can propose, but only Amazon disposes.Way back in 2004, I was unable to review the then-new Norton Critical Edition of "Le Morte Darthur" (Winchester MS version -- see below) because I had already posted a review of the Penguin English Library/Penguin Classics edition (Caxton's text).In the end, I wound up discussing Shepherd's treatment in a review of the Oxford Standard Authors edition, edited by Eugene Vinaver under the idiosyncratic title of "Malory: Complete Works."Now that the NCE (Norton Critical Edition) has its own page, I've decided to slight. , I was unable to review the then-new Norton Critical Edition of "Le Morte Darthur" (Winchester MS version -- see below) because I had already posted a review of the Penguin English Library/Penguin Classics edition (Caxton's text).In the end, I wound up discussing Shepherd's treatment in a review of the Oxford Standard Authors edition, edited by Eugene Vinaver under the idiosyncratic title of "Malory: Complete Works."Now that the NCE (Norton Critical Edition) has its own page, I've decided to slight. "but I am very glad to have it" according to Chris Booth. This is not the most readable edition of Malory, but I am very glad to have it. It is a very careful, scholarly edition, andwellMalory is Malory. You can't go wrong with this excellent edition.If you have not yet read Le Morte Darthur, this is a good edition to choose. It gives a flavor of the age in which the book was written than a more modernized edition might, and Le Morte Darthur is one of the most fundamental works in English-language literature. Malory was one of the great story-tellers, and in his retelling of the Arthurian tales there is much delight and. Engrossing! Worth the effort it took to read! Excellent!!! John Rossi Where do I begin? Watching the film Excalibur inspired me to try to track down this book. I found out shortly after that day of this edition. Boy am I glad I did. The illustrations, whether in color or black and white are absolutely beautiful and vivid. They transport you expertly in your mind to the place being depicted in the image. When I first opened this book I was reminded in a way of reading Scripture almost. This is VERY old English folks, but PLEASE do not let that deter you. It only takes a little while to get used to the wording and you can soon begin
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 witnessesCaxton’s 1485 print and, especially, the famous Winchester Manuscript. The Winchester Manuscript is now generally agreed to be the more authentic of the two earlier texts. 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