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The wife of Bath Geoffrey Chaucer · 1960 · ★ 3.6 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The Wyves Tale of Bathe and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale. Shares: Marriage in literature, Women in literature, Arthurian romances

Victorian women's fiction Shirley Foster · 1985 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Critical interest in women's fiction has grown enormously in recent years, in particular focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinized contemporary assumptions about their own sex. Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom and the Individual develops this area of exploration, showing how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the… Shares: Marriage in literature, Women in literature

Méliador Jean Froissart · 1895 Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

The book of romance Andrew Lang · 1902 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Challenging From the Andrew Lang prismatic series, this is the "Book of Romance", a most attractive selection of what the editor calls "fairy-tales grown up," the Round Table romances and similar stories, with colored pictures and line pictures by H. J . Ford-making a book for the reside dreaming of romantic curly-heads, who will be unaware that they are learning the lore of their race… Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Arthurian women Thelma S. Fenster · 2000 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them. The essays discuss the female characters in Arthurian legend, medieval and modern readers of the legend, modern critics and the modern women writers who have recast the Arthurian inheritance, and finally women visual artists who have used the… Shares: Women in literature, Arthurian romances

Les romans de la table ronde Jacques Boulenger · 1922 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Jacques Boulenger (1879-1944) "Très grande fut la colère de l’Ennemi quand Jésus Notre Sire fut venu en enfer et en eut fait sortir Ève et Adam, et tous ceux qu’il lui plut.– Quel est Celui-ci, qui nous surpasse tant que notre force ne peut rien contre lui ? se demandaient les démons, étonnés.– Rappelez-vous, dit l’un d’eux, que les prophètes avaient annoncé depuis longtemps que le Fils de Dieu… Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Beltane the Smith Jeffery Farnol · 1915 · ★ 2.0 · 558p · ≈ 18h · Challenging A mighty man was Beltane the Smith, despite his youth already great of stature and comely of feature. Much knew he of woodcraft, of the growth of herb and tree and flower, of beast and bird, and how to tell each by its cry or song or flight; he knew the ways of fish in the streams, and could tell the course of the stars in the heavens; versed was he likewise in the ancient wisdoms and… Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Burton Raffel · 1970 · ★ 3.8 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE THE GREEN KNIGHT—STARRING DEV PATELAn epic poem of honor and bravery written by an anonymous fourteenth-century poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is recognized as an equal of Chaucer’s masterworks and of the great Old English poems, including Beowulf.It is Christmas in Camelot, and a truly royal feast has been laid out for King Arthur and his… Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Le roman de Tristan Béroul · 1922 · 171p · ≈ 5h · Challenging La collection « Connaître une œuvre » vous offre la possibilité de tout savoir du Roman de Tristan et Iseut de Béroul grâce à une fiche de lecture aussi complète que détaillée.  La rédaction, claire et accessible, a été confiée à un spécialiste universitaire.  Cette fiche de lecture répond à une charte qualité mise en place par une équipe d’enseignants.  Ce livre numérique contient… Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Lancelot of the Laik Walter W. Skeat · 1865 · 131p · ≈ 4h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Three early English metrical romances Robson, John · 1842 · 132p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

The Complete Story of the Grail Chrétien de Troyes · 2015 · 634p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Arthur’s Queen Guinevere, and in The Knight with the Lion Yvain neglects his bride in his quest for greater glory.… Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Parzival and Titurel Wolfram von Eschenbach · 1849 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging A translation into English by A. S. Kline Illustrated with works from The Flower Book by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (English, 1833 – 1898). ‘Parzival’ is dated, from internal and circumstantial evidence, to the first decade of the 13th century. The work is written in the East Franconian dialect of Middle High German. Its author Wolfram von Eschenbach was a contemporary of Gottfried von Strassburg,… Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Le roman de Tristan Thomas (Anglo-Norman poet) · 1902 · ★ 3.6 · 447p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Version en français moderne de cette très populaire histoire issue de la tradition orale, qui fait son entrée dans la littérature écrite au XIIe siècle. Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Avowing of King Arthur Roger Dahood · 2014 · 152p · ≈ 5h · Moderate This book presents the manuscript of the original poem, from the Ireland Blackburne MS. The composition is from some time between the late 14th and late 15th century. Originally published in 1984, this book introduces the manuscript with historical details and discussion of its language, structure and sources, including a bibliography of related studies. After the poem is a comprehensive notes… Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Merlin Henry Lovelich · 1900 · 739p · ≈ 24h · Challenging Merlin () is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a prophet and a magician, along with several other main roles. Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Story of Meriadoc King of Cambria Mildred Leake Day · 2019 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Published in 1988: The Story of Meriadoc, King of Cambria is about a prince of the kingdom of Cambria (pre-Saxon Wales) who after surviving an attempted assassination by his uncle, fights as a young Knight in the cause of royal justice. Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Etude sur le "Merlin" de Robert de Boron Alexandre Micha · 1980 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The Bureau of Consumer Protection of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) presents the full text of the fact sheet entitled "Personal Emergency Response Systems," published in March 2001 in PDF format. The fact sheet discusses the personal emergency response system (PERS), an electronic device that allows one to summon help in an emergency. The fact sheet also highlights how PERS works,… Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

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