Kneel before your King, IQfy.
Now arise and go forth into your own adventures of reading, and by covenant, swear you will return henceforth when your reading is completed to regale the court with your adventures.
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Slowly becoming more annoying than the obese homosexual who spams the same books in every stack thread and responds to himself as milleranon.
Just try stopping me.
how's the typography on those editions? I've heard they're pricy, can you post a photo of a random page?
Not that anon but I've tried reading Marquis de Sade in this publisher, and the three times they sent me editions entirely in French even though I'm in America using American Amazon (.com). This was in 2019.
bait?
Looks fine to me. It's not hard to read or anything, and it smells GREAT. It's got this very heady scent that reminds me of brass polisher or cymbal polisher.
>it smells GREAT
You don't smell your books? You don't enjoy the smell of certain books? You don't enjoy pleasant smells? Well if that makes me Reddit, then Black Trans Lives Matter and I am Queer for Palestine.
>Israel is le good
Jew
I always thought books were for reading, my IQ must be low.
Books are to read and sniff. An object can have multiple uses and someone with a high IQ will extract the most value for an object they can. Nothing is more invigorating than taking a good 5 second long deep sniff up and down the spine of a cracked open book. Some publishers have better smells than others I’ve learned over the years. I try to shun publishers with a faint odor. I’ve found Penguins often have a strong heady smell that invigorates the senses and wakes up the mind. When one is getting tired and unfocused from a reading session, a good sniff of the book will always put one back on the horse and give a few seconds to rest the eyes
This kind of person is worse than a footgay. Fricking hell, save your fetishes for yourself.
An admirer of a good pair of women’s feet also probably has a high IQ, unironically. It is one of the 5 fetishes/paraphilias of a creative, strong, imaginative mind. It sorrows my souls that some do not partake in the joy of book sniffing. It is one of the purest joys out there and the experience of getting a new book, opening it, taking a good whiff, heartens back to a simpler time, in childhood, for example
I can just imagine you cracking open some old book you got from a used book store and taking a cartoonishly long whiff as you slowly move your face up the spine. Eyes closed and all. You disgust me
I only buy new books and hence only sniff new books. Just like reading a new book is akin to taking a maiden’s virginity, sniffing a book is akin to cunnilingus. No, I will not sniff old musty books that have been handled by many sets of hands
Have you ever raped a book? I knew a guy who did.
Not that guy, but I jerked off to Story of the Eye and some Anaïs Nin stories.
Get a room
Great choice, anon. I myself am planning on buying Pléiades, and hesitating between three or four: L'Iliade et l'Odyssée (one of the rare good versions compiled), Dracula + Frankenstein bundle (pricy), or the new Jungle book version.
The Dracula + Frankenstein looks great. The Dracula volume contains Dracula + the other major vampire works, and similarly the Frankenstein volume contains Frankenstein + the other major gothic works.
Man, if I lived in France I'd have an entire library just with La Pleiade books. Feels bad.
They're expensive. People on this website already complaing about paying $10 for a book. Now imagine paying between $70 - $120 for a book, granted that book tends to have multiple works in it, but you get the point.
This is a tough question. A lot of Arthurian legend is derived from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regium Britanniae. Wace translated Monmouth's work from Latin to Norman as Roman de Brut. Then Layamon translated the Roman de Brut from Norman into Middle English as just the Brut. I suppose that's the origin. Then you have Chrétien de Troyes writing his chivalric romances: Eric et Enide; Cligès; Yvain ou le chevalier au lion; Lancelot, le chevalier de la charrette; and Perceval ou le Conte du Graal. These works expanded upon King Arthur's court and the knights who populated it, and the last one, Perceval, introduced the beginning of The Holy Grail. For Chrétien the Grail wasn't yet connected to Jesus. Later writers developed this theme more fully. You have Robert de Boron's Joseph D'Arimathea and his Merlin (both in verse and in prose). De Boron's work eventually lead to the Vulgate Cycle aka Le Livre du Graal, where his two works were rendered into prose and expanded upon, then appended to this are Les Premier Faits du Roi Arthur and the Prose Lancelot, as well as Le Mort d'Arthur (not Mallory's) and La Quête du Graal. I think these works are the essentials
>Historia Regum Brittaniae (in any of its forms, i.e., Monmouth or Wace or Layamon)
>Chrétien de Troyes complete works
>Robert de Boron's complete works
>the Vulgate Cycle
After this everything Arthurian is basically side tales that are connected to Arthur's court. This encompasses minor chivalric romances like Roman de Fergus, Roman de Silence, and some selections from the Lais of Marie de France.
I was going to search the archives for your posts but NOW THAT YOU’RE HERE please paste a authoritative guide to the Arthurian canon please thank you