| 1. |  | Le Morte D'Arthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $15.25
Customer Review:
Skipping the book review, you can read it yourself for that... the book, this edition is very very well made. The book has a great cover design with and beautiful dust jacket. She's beautiful without the dust jacket as well... a really nice binding too. The book to buy. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | The Canterbury Tales (Middle English Edition)
from Modern Library
Customer Review:
Please note: The Bantam version (translated by Hieatt) only contains the most popular of the Tales. (Use the "Inside this Book" feature to check the table of contents, as I, alas, did not.) The facing page translation is just what I was looking for, but really wanted the complete set. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer
from University of California Press
Price: $13.45
Customer Review:
A very synthesized telling of the Sigurd myth, seen through the lens of an Icelandic telling. There is a lot more myth to this tale than, say, some of the Eddas or the Kalevala, which incorporate much more lore. While Siguard is still the main focus of the saga, there is much more done to... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Arthurian Romances (Everyman Library)
from Tuttle
Price: $12.76
Customer Review:
D.D.R. Owen, late professor emeritus of French in the University of St. Andrews, states of his translation that he kept "the needs of students" in mind. For that reason, Owen tells us, his "renderings...incline towards the literal." In other words Owen's translation of Chrétien of Troyes's... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $47.70
Customer Review:
Christopher doesn't quite have all that his dad did. But this is still a good read for Tolkien lovers. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Chronicles of the Crusades (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $10.88
Customer Review:
I highly recommend this translation of Joinville and Villehardouin.
The translator has taken care to translate these works into lucid, contemporary language without dumbing down the writing. Her work has paid off, providing a readable and lively edition still suitable for scholarly review.more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | The Riverside Chaucer
from Houghton Mifflin Company
Price: $94.84
Customer Review:
A great collection of Chaucer. It's hard to find his other works combined with the Canterbury Tales. The book is well bound and will be something that can be durable enough to stay on the shelves for decades.
The entire book is written in Middle English however. There are plenty of footnotes,... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Troilus and Criseyde (Everyman's Library (Paper))
from Everymans Library
Customer Review:
Amazon seems to be including all the reviews of different editions and translations of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" on the same page. If you read the reviews here you will be very confused. Some refer to an original language edition (either the one made by R. A. Shoaf or Stephen Barney's Norton... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Canto)
from Cambridge University Press
Price: $17.99
Customer Review:
It is difficult to praise "The Discarded Image" too highly. It can be read with profit many times. Other reviewers have told you why.
That said, I would like to say something to those who have read and enjoyed the Space Trilogy, especially "Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra." In writing... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | On Christian Teaching (World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Customer Review:
One author has said that Augustine can be "easier to read than many modern books about him." Nowhere in his writings have I found this to be more true than "On Christian Doctrine." This little text was so compelling that I literally could not put it down (though that may reveal more about me than... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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