Category: Literature

Notes on Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, The Tale of King Arthur

After finishing the two Medieval novels The Decameron (~1351) and The Canterbury Tales (~1385-1400), I got the itch for more and so found my copy of Le Morte d’Arthur (~1468-1471). My brother gave me this copy long ago, I think just after he left the Army. The stories are dense (one page could fill several movies) and told very plainly, less literary and more just an enumeration of events. This will be slow going. The Tale of King Arthur is the first of eight groups of stories.

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Extensive notes on The Canterbury Tales

The second book in the three I had purchased to catch up on the classic literature I should-have-read-but-didn’t. This was overfull with stories and so hard to really think about as a whole. I’ll be looking back on them for months. I am still researching terms I may not have fully understood and reading through essays and can pull more interesting quotes than I have so far. Here are my notes:

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Four pulp sci-fi novels (set #4)

Updated 2 Mar 2019 (Ordeal in Otherwhere)

Updated 23 Apr 2019 (The Last Planet)

Updated 26 May 2019 (Breed to Come)

Updated 8 Jul 2019 (Agent of Entropy)

I select based on the description on the back cover and, by chance, I picked up three Andre Norton books. Sadly, only one of the books has information on their cover artists.

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