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| The Song of Roland [The Penguin Classics] | ![The Song of Roland [The Penguin Classics]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517AGB3C9CL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Creators: E. V. Rieu, Dorothy L Sayers
Publisher: Penguin Books, UK
Category: Book
Buy Used: £0.01
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 285807
Format: Import
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0140440755
Dewey Decimal Number: 841.1
EAN: 9780140440751
ASIN: 0140440755
Publication Date: 1957
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: This is a reading copy only ... although clean inside (pages tanning with age) the binding is beginning to come loose and the spine is cracked. Cover is worn and creased. Shipped from the UK from a smoke free home where books like this one are loved!
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Surprisingly lively June 28, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This translation of the Old French tale is highly entertaining, with flashes of poetic invention that enliven the medieval folderol of swords, steeds and deeds. The story concerns the betrayal of the brave but foolhardy Roland, his knightly companions and his army by the treacherous Ganelon. Sayers cleaves closely to the meter of the original Old French, which requires clever feats of circumlocution and diction. The translation has a charmingly archaic quality, in keeping with the ancient nature of the tale.
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