Tristan with the 'Tristran' of Thomas, 9780140440980
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Forbidden love and tragic deceit consume Tristan and Isolde’s medieval world.

Tristan with the 'Tristran' of Thomas

with the surviving fragments of the tristran of thomas

$44.94

  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    31 March 1960

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Summary

Tristan and Isolde: A Medieval Romance of Love and Deceit

One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan, written in the early thirteenth century, is based on a medieval love story of grand passion and deceit. By slaying a dragon, the young prince Tristan wins the beautiful Isolde’s hand in marriage for his uncle, King Mark.

On their journey back to Mark’s court, however, the pair mistakenly drink a love-potion intended for the king and his young bride and are instant…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140440980
ISBN-10:0140440984
Series:Penguin Classics
Author:A. Hatto, Gottfried von Strassburg
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Edition:1st
Release Date:31 March 1960
Weight:283g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 22mm
About The Author

A. Hatto

Gottfried von Strassburg was probably a member of the urban patriciate in Strassburg. Judging from his writing he appears to have been a cultured man, well read in Latin, French and German; a lover of music and hunting, and a skilled linguistic stylist. He chose Thomas as his source for Tristan, and completed five-sixths of the work. A.T. Hatto has translated The Niebelungenlied and Eschenbach’s Parzival for Penguin Classics.

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