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Brian Stone, trans.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, second edition.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978 reprint (original edn. was 1959).
Series: Penguin Classics.
ISBN 0140440925.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Hazell Watson & Viney, Aylesbury.
Size: 110x178x11mm.
Page count: 185pp.
Main language: English; an appendix gives a short passage of the original Middle English for comparison.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some scuffs and creases on the covers, a little fraying on the corners and edges; pages rather yellowed with age; the spine is scuffed but not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £2.00
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[This translation no longer published]
Weight without packaging:118g.

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Appendices: Essay on the Green Knight; Essay on moral nature of Gawain; The poem as a play (performed at Newcastle, Christmas 1971); The manuscript; Theories about the poet; The pentangle & its significance; Notes on Arthurian matters; Extracts from the original poem
Introduction: 12pp
Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 1 monochrome text figure
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 4pp
Index: no

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