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Article: Sir Thomas Malory; Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2000
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Sir Thomas Malory; Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript, edited and abridged with an introduction and notes by Helen Cooper, Oxford World's Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). xxxiii + 576 pp. ISBN 0-19-282420-1. 7.99 [pounds sterling].
This splendid volume gives us the Winchester Malory in a new, affordable, modern-spelling edition. A book of this sort involves a number of tricky decisions, all of which are judiciously handled by Helen Cooper. The text has been slightly abridged, mostly by leaving out lesser military engagements and a number of minor episodes. Readers of Malory may hunt down omissions of details to which they have a special ...