 | Sir Gawain And The Green Knight/Pearl/Cleanness/Patience (Everyman's Library (Paper))
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.98 As far as Middle English goes this is a difficult text because (unlike Chaucer) it is a North-Western dialect, but worth making the effort. There is a good glossary and helpful notes.
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 | Works (Oxford Standard Authors) by Thomas Malory
Buy new: £10.12 / Used from: £3.00 Classic arthurian legend.
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 | Vision Of Piers Plowman: "B" Text (Everyman) by William Langland
Buy used from: £19.03 Interesting Middle English allegorical poem, although the moralistic christian preaching might make your eyes glaze over at times.
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 | Till Eulenspiegel: His Adventures (World's Classics)
Buy used from: £28.95 The amusing exploits of one of germany's most famous folk heroes.
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 | Lives of the Visigothic Fathers (Translated Texts for Historians) by A.T. Fear
Buy new: £15.00 / Used from: £11.81 A precious insight into Visigothic Spain.
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 | Six Middle English Romances (Everyman's Library (Paper))
Buy used from: £0.39 13th Century Middle-English poetry.
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 | Don Quijote De La Mancha: Don Quijote De La Mancha 2 Vol 2 by Cervantes
Buy new: £7.45 / Used from: £5.36 The second and final part of Quijote is even cleverer and more amusing than the first. Essential reading!
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 | Amadis of Gaul: Bks. 1 & 2: A Novel of Chivalry of the Fourteenth Century (Studies in Romance Languages (Lexington, Ky.), 11.)
Buy new: £25.60 / Used from: £16.00 Amadis was the hero and role-model of Cervantes' Quijote. Full of giants, enchanters and dwarves. Classic knight-errant legend.
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 | The Chronicles of the Crusades (Penguin Classics) by Geffroy Villehardouin
Buy used from: £0.14 Two fascinating eyewitness accounts of the crusades.
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 | The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) by none
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £0.05 Old French poem that tells of the massacre of Charlemagne's rearguard whilst on the way back from fighting the moors in spain. The hero is the legendary Roland. This edition also has the French text.
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 | The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser
Buy new: £10.55 / Used from: £4.00 Chivalric legend in late Middle-English verse. Reminiscent of Ariosto and Malory etc... with the occasional bit of religious allegory that brings to mind Piers Plowman. Essential fantasy/chivalry.
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 | The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy used from: £0.01 Could just as easily be entitled 'How to be a complete bastard'.
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 | Complete Plays & Poems : Marlowe (Everyman Paperbacks) by Christopher Marlowe
Buy used from: £7.90 Probably the best English playwright.
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 | Hamlet (The New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 This play is reminiscent of a story in Saxo Grammaticus' 'History of the Danes'. It deals well with the familiar topic of revenge taken by a son for his father's murder.
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 | Ywain & Gawain: Sir Percyvell (Everyman Paperback Classics)
Buy used from: £1.34 More arthurian legend in middle-english.
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 | Amadis De Gaula (Odres Nuevos) by Angel Rosenblat
Buy used from: £15.18 This is an abridged version, but still an enjoyable read.
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 | The Táin: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge: From the Irish Epic "Tain Bo Cuailnge"
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £3.90 Excellent early Irish heroic saga.
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 | Amadis De Gaula: Vol 1 (Letras Hispanicas) by Garcia Rodriguez
Buy new: £23.75 / Used from: £43.99 Proper unabridged version of Amadis. One of the best Arthurian-style tales of chivalry.
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 | Amadis De Gaula: Vol 2 (Letras Hispanicas) by Garcia Rodriguez
Buy new: £22.80 / Used from: £22.02 Proper unabridged version of Amadis. One of the best Arthurian-style tales of chivalry.
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