From the Bookshelf of Around the World in 80 Books

Find A Copy At

Group Discussions About This Book

No group discussions for this book yet.

What Members Thought

Anie
This is an enjoyable set of tales. As always happens with folklore, there's a few things that happen where you're a bit confused as to character motivation (it's hard to understand people from a very different culture, like that of 14th century Wales). But as always happens, it's also rewarding and takes you into a different and interesting place.

The translation for this one -- the Guest translation -- is certainly a bit clunky, and probably not what one would suggest for scholarship, but I was
...more
Kim DeCina
Feb 07, 2013 marked it as to-read
Micha
Mar 20, 2013 marked it as to-read
Megan
May 27, 2015 marked it as to-read
Shelves: penguin-classics
superawesomekt
Jan 06, 2018 marked it as tbr-myshelf  ·  review of another edition
Suzanne
Mar 14, 2020 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition
Verity
Jul 14, 2023 marked it as to-read