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Cligès

Cligès

1997 ·
·3.72·128 Ratings ·248 Pages
“ Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ” ― Rumi
Authors' Books
  • Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart

    1997·
    ·3.67·1,138 Ratings
    In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English language readers the fourth of Chrétien’s five surviving romantic Arthurian poems. This poem was the first to introduce Lancelot as an important figure in the King Arthur
  • 41 Stories

    1986·
    ·4.02·423 Ratings
    One of the most famous pseudonym's in history, the name O. Henry evokes wordplay that is dazzling, inventive, wry, and humorous. This anthology includes forty-one stories that continue to captivate generation after generation of readers, including "The Gi
  • The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems

    1999·
    ·4.25·134 Ratings
    Affordable, compact, and authoritative, this one-volume edition of The Annotated Milton encompasses the monumental sweep of John Milton’s poetry. Here are Milton’ s early works, including his first great poem, “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity,
  • Romans de la Table Ronde: Erec et Enide, Cligès, Lancelot, Yvain

    1975··French
    ·3.79·188 Ratings
    Premier romancier, premier poète national, admirable maître d'œuvre tant des romans de courtoisie que du roman mystique de Perceval, Chrétien trouve chez le lecteur d'aujourd'hui la même complicité que chez son auditeur des assemblées médiévales.
  • Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail

    1985·
    ·3.7·1,004 Ratings
    In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail.Cline's translation, faithful to the highly synthe
  • Arthurian Romances

    1991·
    ·3.98·6,608 Ratings
    Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relatio
  • Yvain, or The Knight with the Lion

    1984·
    ·3.69·1,333 Ratings
    This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remarkably subtle work often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes. The creator of the Arthurian romance as a
  • Erec and Enide

    2000·
    ·3.69·497 Ratings
    Erec and Enide marks the birth of the Arthurian romance as a literary genre. Written circa 1170, this version of the Griselda legend tells the story of the marriage of Erec, a handsome and courageous Welsh prince and knight of the Round Table, and Enide,
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