false 3048 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg 3048 10 6643245 book 1390 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo total:392|5:101|4:105|3:116|2:25|1:7| 392 1482 584 20 1436 3.78 71589 7500 656983 4.17 511621 15664 57135760 2339046 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 323 5 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1984 Sun May 24 05:53:20 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 05:57:19 -0700 2009 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, designed, it seems, for reading aloud. At least, it sounds nice when you do. Tolkien preserves some of the technical jargon from chivalry, but he excelled at alliterative verse, and thus this translation shines! It's printed with hi...more...]]> 67439929 2595735 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 4 0 false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 19:15:22 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 19:28:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 53412548 1504805 6148795 1417737468 9781417737468 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6148795.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.94 36 2 0 false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 19:03:30 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 20:21:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 47459382 1959519 6288631 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235547159m/6288631.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288631.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Night_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 5.00 2 5 0 false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 24 23:31:15 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 11:40:44 -0700 2009 1 Anno Domini millennium, English appeared on the scene as a distinct language, descended from the Germanic family of Indo-European languages, and still bearing striking resemblance to its parent (cf. words like "rice" for kingdom, traced back to the ...more...]]> 46162952 1755714 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 5 0 false Thu Feb 12 13:17:06 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 12:08:18 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 13:17:06 -0800 2009 63783136 2522489 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 2 0 false Thu Jul 16 16:34:53 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 08:53:09 -0700 2009 Beowulf. ]]> 72655075 2013605 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 0 0 false Sun Sep 27 09:39:45 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 09:40:46 -0700 2009 56857105 788668 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 5 0 false Thu May 21 09:40:26 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 09:41:59 -0700 2009 4301912 204655 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 5 0 false Thu Aug 09 05:27:44 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 05:27:44 -0700 2007 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is one of my favorite middle English texts, and from what I've heard and read, the Tolkien translation is one of the best. The other poems interest me also, because critics say the anonymous author of "Gawain" wrote the others as well.more...]]> 48142622 874936 6148795 1417737468 9781417737468 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6148795.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 4 0 false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 14:27:04 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 29 09:27:34 -0700 2009 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! By all means, get the J.R.R. Tolkien translation for its faithful duplication of the Old English alliteration and the end-of-stanza rhymes! A sterling example of West Midlands literature of the period!more...]]> 58670413 1532639 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sat Jun 06 13:45:55 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 13:47:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6713882 172757 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 5 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Sep 24 12:24:44 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 12:28:09 -0700 2007 I reccomend it for Tolkien fans and fans of Arthurian legend as well.
Tolkien really makes the text come alive, and it doesn't read like most stilted translations of old works (Ode...more...]]> 36303969 706378 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 2 0 false Mon Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 09:12:30 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 09:13:49 -0700 2008 1 Pearl as a follow up to having read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.]]> 582961 36341 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 3 0 false Thu Apr 05 07:29:01 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 05 07:30:00 -0700 2007 36973500 1660443 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 1 0 false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 05 13:18:11 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 08:05:52 -0800 2009 ]]> 2486220 152979 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 3 0 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 08:28:21 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 08:28:49 -0700 2007 17869782 996977 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 5 0 false Sun Mar 16 12:15:59 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 12:16:42 -0700 2008 10396634 629685 3048 0345277600 9780345277602 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793479m/3048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3048.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 2 0 false Thu Dec 13 18:35:41 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 18:36:03 -0800 2007 55054027 2242457 6148795 1417737468 9781417737468 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6148795.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 3 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue May 05 14:07:51 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 14:20:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 54715560 2279376 6148795 1417737468 9781417737468 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6148795.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_Pearl_Sir_Orfeo 3.78 392 3 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat May 02 13:57:08 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 13:57:25 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3048