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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

10 best books like The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (M. Joseph Bédier): The Nibelungenlied, The Song of Roland, The History of the Kings of Britain, The Lais of Marie de France, Arthurian Romances, Pantagruel, The Romance of the Rose, Erec and Enide, Yvain, or The Knight with the Lion, Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail

The Nibelungenlied
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0140441379
Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prince of the Netherlands, wins the hand of the beautiful...
The Song of Roland
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0140440755
On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant epic poem in French. The Song of Roland, written...
The History of the Kings of Britain
AuthorGeoffrey of Monmouth
ISBN0140441700
Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous...
The Lais of Marie de France
AuthorMarie de France
ISBN0140447598
This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of her but she was probably the Abbess of the abbey at Shaftesbury in the late 12th century, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet and hence the half-sister of Henry II of England. It was to a king, and...
Arthurian Romances
AuthorChrétien de Troyes
ISBN0140445218
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...
Pantagruel
AuthorFrançois Rabelais
ISBN2070363872
François Rabelais holds a unique place in the history of world literature, and no more so than for his extraordinary satirical entertainment Gargantua and Pantagruel. Here the first of these volumes is presented in a new and lively translation. Pantagruel recounts the life a popular giant. From...
The Romance of the Rose
AuthorGuillaume de Lorris
ISBN0192839489
This is a new translation of The Romance of the Rose, an allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair which became the most popular and influential of all medieval romances. In the hands of Jean de Meun, who continued de Lorris's work, it assumed vast proportions and embraced almost every...
Erec and Enide
AuthorChrétien de Troyes
ISBN0820321419
Erec and Enide marks the birth of the Arthurian romance as a literary genre. Written circa 1170, this version of the Griselda legend tells the story of the marriage of Erec, a handsome and courageous Welsh prince and knight of the Round Table, and Enide, an impoverished noblewoman. When the lovers become...
Yvain, or The Knight with the Lion
AuthorChrétien de Troyes
ISBN0820307580
This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remarkably subtle work often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes. The creator of the Arthurian romance as a genre, Chrétien is revealed in this work as...
Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail
AuthorChrétien de Troyes
ISBN0820308129
In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail.Cline's translation, faithful to the highly synthetic, deliberately ornate nature of medieval...
Tristan and Iseult
AuthorRosemary Sutcliff
ISBN0374479828
I started writing a review of this retelling of the sad, beautiful story of Tristan and Iseult. And then the review turned into my own retelling. And then it turned into something that I didn't feel quite up to sharing with the world. And so.

If you need the bare outlines of the story, here it is....
Canzoniere
AuthorFrancesco Petrarca
ISBN8806179497
In concomitanza con il settimo centenario della nascita del poeta, la curatrice, tra i massimi specialisti del Petrarca volgare, conclude un lavoro durato quasi vent'anni. Commentando minuziosamente ogni verso e ogni espressione petrarchesca, il fittissimo richiamo dei testi classici e della...
Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart
AuthorChrétien de Troyes
ISBN0300071213
lancelot is a damsel in distress

lancelot in the tower: oh woe, my life sucks, i'm stuck here forever
the maiden: yo, lancelot!
lancelot: i will never be free. nobody knows i'm here. alas.
the maiden: seriously dude i'm right here
lancelot: i wish i was dead
the maiden:...
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