Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo - Softcover

J. R. R. Tolkien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0048210390 ISBN 13: 9780048210395

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, 1979

Synopsis

This is Tolkien's highly accessible translation of three early English poems, accompanied by an informative and scholarly introduction.

About this title

Review:

‘The introduction to Gawain is a little masterpiece.’
Times Higher Educational Supplement

‘This magnificent Arthurian tale of love, sex, honour, social tact, personal integrity and folk-magic is one of the greatest and most approachable narrative poems in the language. Tolkien’s version makes it come triumphantly alive, a moving and consoling elegy.’
Birmingham Post

About the Author:

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. After serving in World War I, he embarked upon a distinguished academic career and was recognized as one of the finest philologists in the world. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. He is, however, beloved throughout the world as the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic works as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He died on September 2, 1973, at the age of eighty-one.

About this edition

• Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0048210390
• ISBN 13: 9780048210395
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150