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    <body><![CDATA[I decided to review Le Morte d'Arthur, even though it has been SO long since I read it.  I don't remember everything, but I remember how how fascinating it was.  It was a hard read; I remember that.  I remember why I decided to read it, too.  I had been browsing in the library, and I happened to see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29060013">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a piece of engaging fiction Le Morte D'Arthur is bound to  disappoint unless you are unabashedly entertained by similar cycles of knights questing again and again. Structurally Mallory's work is repetitive and contains a questionable moral structure.<br/>But as an origin of British legends and th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10792024">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of all the patriarchal, new-religion interpretations of Arthurian myth, this is the most misogynistic.  Yes, I know one must judge a book by it's time period, but if ever a book infuriated me by illustrating the virgin-whore paradigm, this one has.  Not only do most of the female characters complete...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60950023">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm so glad I finally read Le Morte Darthur. I've loved the King Arthur stories ever since I was little and read what I think was a retelling by Enid Blyton. I actually read this for my Late Medieval Literature class, but I'd have read it someday anyway. The copy I read was an abridgement, which is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35102316">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At long last hath I enchieved the goodliest quest of 937 pages of Ye Olde English!<br/><br/>937 pages of damosels and knights smiting everych other and breaking their spears all to-brast, and tourneys and &quot;justing&quot; and villainous kings who traitorly slew... oops, there I go again.  I'm j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9840401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I still have trouble believing I made it all the way through this. I really did have to struggle through it, and I feel bad saying that because this is a classic. It might not be the oldest written form of Arthurian Legend, but it what all others are based on. It's obviously a classic. However, it w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10009202">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fairly literal, but perfectly understandable transcription from original manuscripts, and academic versions of the book that has inspired scores of novels, movies, musicals, et cetera.  Spelling has been regularized when necessary, and there is no criticus apparatus or footnotes to break t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22727692">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table is one of the most enduring and influential stories in world literature. Its themes - love, war, religion, treachery, and family loyalty - are timeless, as are the reputations of its major characters, Arthur, Merlin, Guenevere, and L...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80649946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got about a third of the way through, and to my considerable shame, ran out of steam. It's a huge tome of a book. It has that classic story telling style, light on the emotional detail we take for granted in mnodern writing, heavier on who smited whom, and with what. The stories come thick and fas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78832632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this epic volume in the third grade, after borrowing it from my librarian mother's rather extensive collection. Much of the subtlety and symbolism was way over my head at that age, but I remember being fascinated with and enthralled by the tales of the knights and their quests, to the p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73161894">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just recently finished reading &quot;Le Morte d'Arthur&quot;, and it was an interesting experience.  It defies categorization.  Not a novel, not an epic poem, not exactly a collection of myths, more than a collection of folk stories, certainly a product of a Christian imagination, but very earthy....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77856564">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     This is a book best tackled by the hardcore fan of Arthurian tales; it may be best to have read one of the more modern versions like &quot;The Once and Future King&quot; before trying this one.  It is a long book, digressive, and nonlinear in it's narrative.  The language is also makes it a tou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44207625">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Le Morte D'Arthur is the classic written compilation of the stories of King Arthur. It was written by Sir Thomas Malory in the early 1400's and printed by William Caxton in 1485, after Malory's death. Malory himself wrote the stories that were already known in various other French and English transl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43521418">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First off this review is for the OWC edition of the Winchester Manuscript edited by Helen Cooper. This is an edited version of Morte based on a manuscript copy of Malory's text, there are a few wee bits that Caxton changed for the printed edition he put out, including adding headings for chapters et...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56863396">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is simply a classic and while it can be repetitive at times, it is inarguably the blueprint for centuries and centuries of legends and stories. This is the original sourcebook as it were. What is particularly fascinating is the manner in which the conventions of Romance transmute by the end into ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45913183">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written in Middle English by Sir Thomas Malory in the 1400s.  I really enjoyed it, as I've long been curious about the larger picture of King Arthur.  This is the original version, finally committed to paper after surviving 500 years of the oral tradition.  I listened to it on tape, and the language...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60778849">more...</a>]]></body>
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