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The Age of Chivalry: Library Editionby Thomas Bulfinch, Giovanni CaselliISBN 002861478X (0-02-861478-X)
Softcover, Macmillan General Reference
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Chivalry: Library Edition'Book summary:Although "Bulfinch's" has been heralded for more than a century, it has never before been published in so beautiful and accessible a format. Evocative four-color illustrations, many full-page, bring to life key events and characters of these universal tales and sagas. Original footnotes, indices, and Prefaces make the series not only entertaining, but completely authoritative as well. 115 illustrations. [via]
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The Age of Fable: The Illustrated Bulfinch's Mythologyby Thomas Bulfinch, Giovanni CaselliISBN 0028614755 (0-02-861475-5)
Softcover, Macmillan General Reference
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Fable: The Illustrated Bulfinch's Mythology'Book summary:Here are the world's most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for today's readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Though Bulfinch's has been heralded for more than a century, it has never been published in so beautiful and accessible a format. Evocative four-color illustrations, many full-page, bring to life key events and characters of these universal tales and sagas -- from the Greek and Roman pantheon of gods to the heroes of the Crusades, from the exploits of Robin Hood to the feats of Richard the Lionheart. As enjoyable now as when Bulfinch first assembled them, these selections come from a variety of works -- Ovid's classic Metamorphoses, Egyptian myths, Eastern mythology, and Hindu, Norse, and Celtic sources. Together they form a remarkable tapestry of human endeavor: dreams, illusions, adventures, loves lost and loves found. In this handsome series, they speak to us afresh, across the ages, vivified through Caselli's inspired art. Original footnotes, indexes, and prefaces make this series not only entertaining, but completely authoritative as well. [via]
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The Archaeology of South West Britainby Susan M. PearceISBN 0002162199 (0-00-216219-9)
Hardcover, Collins
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Barbarian West: The Early Middle Ages, A. D. 400-1000by J.M. Wallace-HadrillISBN 0061310611 (0-06-131061-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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The Book of Kellsby Ben MacKworth-PraedISBN 0062511319 (0-06-251131-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Book of Threeby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0030898218 (0-03-089821-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Celtic Renaissanceby Alice RiganISBN 0060909463 (0-06-090946-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Celtic Spirit: Daily Meditations for the Turning Yearby Caitlin MatthewsISBN 0062515381 (0-06-251538-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Children of Llyrby Evangeline WaltonISBN 0020264747 (0-02-026474-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Celtic Wisdom: By Carl McColmanby Carl McColmanISBN 0028644174 (0-02-864417-4)
Softcover, Alpha Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Celtic Wisdom: By Carl McColman'Book summary:[via]A comprehensive look at Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and continental Celtic traditions, both Pagan and Christian, this guide includes the Celtic approach to shamanism, fairies, Wicca, neopaganism, magic, and Druidism. It draws a map for today's Celtic quest, with the way of the pilgrim, honor of one's ancestors, and the language and culture. Exploring the Celtic universe-gods and goddesses, mythic heroes and warriors, wonderworkers, underworlds, and otherworlds-this manual also covers legends such as King Arthur, Merlin, and the Quest for the Holy Grail.
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Fairy Folk Tales of Irelandby W. B. YeatsISBN 0020556403 (0-02-055640-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland'Book summary:THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME INTRODUCTION TO IRELAND'S RICH FOLKLORE: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS'S MAGICAL SELECTION OF TRADITIONAL IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES
Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland combines two books of Irish folklore collected and edited by William Butler Yeats -- Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, first published in 1888, and Irish Fairy Tales, published in 1892. In this delightful gathering of legend and song, the familiar characters of Irish myth come to life: the mercurial trooping fairies, as ready to make mischief as to do good; the solitary and industrious Lepracaun and his dissipated cousin, the Cluricaun; the fearsome Pooka, who lives among ruins and has "grown monstrous with much solitude"; and the Banshee, whose eerie wailing warns of death. More than an ambitious and successful effort to preserve the rich heritage of his native land, this volume confirms Yeats's conviction that imagination is the source of both life and art. As Benedict Kiely observes in his foreword, Yeats was seeking "not for the meaning of any mystery but for what he had already determined to find...a world of the imagination...a world that fed on dreaming and not on the painted toy of grey truth." [via]
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Green Man: The Archetype of Our Oneness with the Earthby William Anderson, Clive HicksISBN 0062500759 (0-06-250075-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Illustrated Bulfinch's Mythology: Legends of Charlemagne, the Age of Chivalry, the Age of Fableby Thomas Bulfinch, Giovanni CaselliISBN 0028620631 (0-02-862063-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Le Morte D'Arthurby Thomas Malory, Robert M. LumianskyISBN 0020225601 (0-02-022560-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Priestess of Avalonby Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. PaxsonISBN 0002247097 (0-00-224709-7)
Hardcover, Voyager
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The Prince of Annwnby Evangeline WaltonISBN 0020264712 (0-02-026471-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby James KreuzerISBN 0030088801 (0-03-008880-1)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeoby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0048210358 (0-04-821035-8)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo'Book summary:Throughout his life, Professor J.R.R. Tolkien held alliterative poetry in particular affection, and over many years he endeavored to perfect translations into current speech of those middle-English poems of which he was most fond.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, two major and long-neglected poems by an unknown author, derive from the West Midlands, an area of England with which Professor Tolkien felt a strong affinity, and where the alliterative tradition survived strongly in the fourteenth century. Sir Orfeo is a slighter, but no less attractive, poem from a different tradition, and was a special favorite of its translator.
These three translations represent with great skill the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals. They constitute a triumphant memorial to a life-long love of language and its expression in metre and verse·form. No scholar who reads them with attention will fail to find illumination, and no reader of Professor Tolkien's widely known imaginative works will feel disappointed, or fail to perceive in every page flashes of familiarity. It was, indeed, to the general reader that he wished to interpret these poems, and in doing so to lose neither the narrataive skill nor the heightened poetic expression of the originals.
Translation of this quality creates and recreates a work of great intrinsic value, and Professor Tolkien would rejoice if his part in this process contributes to a more general recognition that Gawain and Pearl is poetry of the highest attainment, coeval with Chaucer's and in no sense inferior.
This book has been prepared for publication by Christopher Tolkien, who is a fellow and tutor in English of New College, Oxford.
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Sir Thomas Malory's Tales of King Arthurby Michael Senior, Thomas MaloryISBN 0002223732 (0-00-222373-2)
Hardcover, Collins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Thomas Malory's Tales of King Arthur'Book summary:For more than 500 years the adventures of King Arthur and his knights have been a source for British mythology, known after William Caxton's edition as the "motre d'Arthur". The aim of this edition is to make a version of the tales which can be read by a contemporary reader purely for pleasure with no sense of duty or effort. The editor also writes plays, poetry and has written "Greece and its Myths, "Portrait of North Wales", "Portrait of South Wales" and "Myths of Britain". [via]
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