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To: Fedora

"The Boy's King Arthur", which is a slightly edited and abridged version of Malory's "history". Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. The language is nicely archaic...and there's plenty of blood and guts. We wore out our copy rather quickly.


3,035 posted on 05/17/2004 5:25:47 PM PDT by RosieCotton ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." - G. K. Chesterton)
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3,038 posted on 05/17/2004 5:31:52 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: RosieCotton
I just looked that up--wow, that looks like a beautiful book! The illustrations are online here:

The Boy's King Arthur

It sounds like it was written in 19th-century English, too--that would be neat, I bet!

BTW while I was in college I had a nice opportunity to take a class on Arthurian literature under a Tolkien scholar who was in our English Department. We surveyed the major treatments of Arthur in literature and film--here is our syllabus:

Week 1: Introduction and Marie de France (Sir Lanval)

Week 2: Chretien de Troyes (Yvain)

Week 3: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Week 4: Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson (Gareth & Lynette

Week 5: Mark Twain (Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Week 6: T.H. White (The Sword in the Stone)

Week 7: Selections from Sword in the Stone and Camelot

Week 8: Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon

Week 9: Selections from Excalibur, etc.)

The "etc." in the last week turned out to be Monty Python :)

3,043 posted on 05/17/2004 5:36:41 PM PDT by Fedora (I'm Fedora, and I approved this message before I disapproved it)
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