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Eugène Vinaver.
Malory.
Published Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970 reissue (original edition was 1929).
SBN 198115830.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Size: 145x221x21mm.
Page count: [xvi],208pp plus 8 pages of monochrome plates.
Main language: English; quotations from other languages generally given without translation.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some wear on the dustjacket, otherwise looks in generally good order.

This item £35.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 514g.

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Vinaver's classic study, which was originally published before the discovery of the Winchester Manuscript, is published here as an unaltered reissue with a new preface.

Contents: Genesis of Arthurian romance; Narrative technique; Romance & realism; Genius of chivalry; Camelot & Corbenic; New Arthuriad; Translation & style.
Appendices: Materials for Malory’s biography; Sources of the Morte Darthur; Malory’s version of the 'Quest of the Holy Grail'.
Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: 8 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: 3
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 10pp, annotated
Index: yes

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