Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
- ISBN-10
- 0345277600
- ISBN-13
- 9780345277602
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 165
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Random House Digital, Inc.
- Author
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Description
The scholar-fantacist offers faithful translations of the three classics of Medieval English verse
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