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What is the best version of le morte d'arthur to read for the first time? Which version has the complete unabridged version. What is the best Middle English version? I was thinking of getting this one which seems to be a modern translation?

>> No.19160224
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There should be a chart like this but with Le Morte Darthur

>> No.19160707

bump

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>>19160198
I tried for so long to find a decent version of the arthurian tales. Don't get the bantam classics version. It's so abridged that it reads like modern fanfiction. I like the leather bound classics version. It's unabridged, wording feels era appropriate, but the spellings are modern, so it's still readable, got nice illustrations, and it's pretty cheap.

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>>19160757
someone on amazon seems to disagree

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i have these. not sure where i got them. haven't read them. but i'll post a sample of the prose.

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>>19160857
sample page. from above.

>> No.19160876

>>19160198
>reading a translation of Le Morte Darthur
It’s not Chaucer or Sir Gawain, just buy the two volume Penguin edition which modernises the spelling while keeping the original text alongside a glossary explaining some of the more arcane words. It’s not a hard book by any means, at least if you have a IQ over 90.

>> No.19160895

>>19160847
Not the version I have. Sometimes Amazon publishes reviews from multiple editions under the same product. The version I have has 21 books and ends with Arthur dying.

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>>1916
You can read caxton's original printed version online on the corpus or medical literature and verse, so if you don't mind reading online I'd just do that. I dunno how easy it is to find it in paper format with the language preserved but the typography modernised, although i bet its harder than it should be.

No idea for modernised versions, but I wouldn't recommend them anyway. If you are interested in medieval literature Malory's English is a good entry level, so it would actually be good practice if you want to take it any further.

>> No.19160911

>>19160901
>or medical
of medieval.
G darn it.

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what are some video games with arthurian themes?

>> No.19160924

>>19160870
nice thanks anon, does it have every book?

>> No.19160939

>>19160857
why the bisexual lighting?

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>>19160870
You don't actually read under that light, do you anon?

>> No.19160979

>>19160939
>>19160969
He just went in to the bathroom of the gay nightclub to snap a pic for you and this is how you act?

>> No.19160988

>>19160979
They also use those lights in areas where junkies shoot up. Allegedly the blue light makes it harder to find the vein.

>> No.19161011

>>19160988
yeah I remember that story from when I was a kid. Not sure if I ever quite bought it though.

>> No.19161075

>>19160988
don't get this reasoning because its about feel not site, im a phlebotomist fag