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Beowulf: A Verse Translation : Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism | Seamus Heaney, Daniel Donoghue

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I try to read classics periodically and I‘d never read this. I tried to be excited. It was fine.

Erinreadsthebooks I tried to teach this to seniors my first year of teaching. We were all miserable. 😩😅 2w

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catiewithac

Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio

Dude, should we read this book together on Litsy? Look at that first sentence! #thedecameron #decameron #boccaccio

JenniferEgnor Amazon has a tv series based on this book! 1mo

Dilara I'd be interested! 1mo

Bookwormjillk I‘d be interested! 1mo

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TheBookHippie Oh!!!! 1mo

Deblovestoread ❤️❤️❤️ 1mo

Cuilin What a great first sentence!! I have a copy so if there‘s a buddy read, somebody please tag me. 1mo

Graywacke @JenniferEgnor any good? 1mo

Graywacke @catiewithac fun book. Enjoy. More Covid appropriate than humans in charge appropriate. ☺️ 1mo

JenniferEgnor @Graywacke lots of comedy. 1mo

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Graywacke

Le Morte Darthur, Or, The Hoole Book of Kyng Arthur and of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table: Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism | Sir Thomas Malory

After lots of playing around with decisions and introductions of various books, it seems i‘ve committed myself to this book - my new morning read. Bring on Mallory.

dabbe I had to read this one after reading THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING. I'm interested to read what you think about it. 🖤🐾🖤 2mo

Graywacke @dabbe So far it‘s a lot less boring 😆 Ok. i read White‘s book when I was 15 and not a book reader. And that … a lot of years ago. 2mo

dabbe @Graywacke No wonder some of my students in honors English would look at me like this when we were reading it: 😳🥱😴💤... 😂 2mo

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Graywacke @dabbe 😆 high school students have no tolerance for good literature, today or anytime during my lifetime (i might be exaggerating) 2mo

Bookwomble This is one of my top five books. Love Malory! 2mo

Graywacke @Bookwomble wow. That‘s great encouragement. On one hand I‘m ridiculously charmed. On the other, it‘s 5 minutes a page. It‘s a 60+ hour read… But it‘s my morning. I‘ll take it slow. (edited) 2mo

Bookwomble @Graywacke One of my earliest memories (5 years old, perhaps) is of playing Sir Kay in an infant school play, and King Arthur and his knights have been part of my fibre ever since 😊 And, yes, it's dense! The stories in Malory are repetitive in nature, although often with different moral emphases, such as the love triangles between Arthur-Guenevere-Lancelot and Mark-Isoud-Tristram. 2mo

Bookwomble My favourite story, I think, is one that Malory created rather than retold: Sir Gareth. It draws from established Arthurian themes, but put together differently. It has an undercurrent of ancient rites and magic, and psychological archetypes that I find really engaging. (Sorry, I'll stop gushing!) 2mo

Graywacke @Bookwomble you have a freehand to gush on any of my posts. Especially on Mallory. I really know nothing. And you were acting characters i didn‘t know existed in infant school! You‘re a source for me! You and Monty Python! ☺️ (edited) 2mo

Bookwomble Python will probably be a more reliable source! ? And "act" would probably be a generous term. Still, it definitely influenced my love of folklore and chivalrous tales ? 2mo

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Dilara

Lancelot, or the Knight of the Cart | Chr�tien de Troyes

The Lady of the Lake in the Jardin Korriganezed (korrigans are Breton leprechauns)
https://domaine-chaumont.fr/en/internationalgarden-festival/2025-edition-once-up...

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bibliothecarivs

The Icelandic Saga | Peter Hallberg

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

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Bookwomble

Stories from Le Morte D'arthur and the Mabinogion | Beatrice Clay

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The lovely Aubrey Beardsley frontispiece and title page of Beatrice Clay's retelling of Arthurian stories.
Although written for older children of the Edwardian era, and therefore removing certain "unsuitable" elements, it's not as moralistic as I'd feared it might be. Her afterword about knightly privilege being predicated on exploitation and enslavement of peasants is rather forward-thinking. 4.75 ?

Bookwomble The summary of one of my favourite Malory stories, Sir Gareth and Linette, the "Damosel Sauvage", has whetted my appetite for more Arthurian tales ?️ 2mo

CarolynM Beardsley ❤️ 2mo

The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble I felt like that after reading Arthurian tales too. 2mo

tpixie Beautiful illustrations! 🖤🩶🤍 2mo

bibliothecarivs 😍 2mo

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bibliothecarivs

The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology | Kevin Crossley-Holland

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

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Bookwomble

Stories from Le Morte D'arthur and the Mabinogion | Beatrice Clay

This 1934 edition of Beatrice Clay's Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion is an Edwardian retelling of the main Arthurian stories. I've had it for decades, so it's time is come to be read!
Written for children, the first 1901 edition left out Morgan le Fay, what with their relationship being "complicated", I suppose, but this reprint of the 1905 edition incorporated Morgan in suitably bowdlerised form.
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Bookwomble While it's a neat little edition, it's also a cheap reprint, without the original Dora Curtis illustrations, which the internet suggests are rather good, so that's a shame. 3mo

Leftcoastzen Still , very pretty! 3mo

Bookwomble @Leftcoastzen It has a nice Aubrey Beardsley frontispiece, which is some consolation 😊 3mo

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