Le Morte d'Arthur--best, most readable version?

[strider]

Hi folks,

SWB does not recommend any particular version of Le Morte d'Arthur in TWTM. Is there a gorgeous, easy, modern translation or is the Gutenberg version a good representation of what's out there?

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=1323043

Thanks!

[Catherine]

http://www.amazon.com/Morte-DArthur-Sir-Thomas-Malory/dp/0760755213/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257906371&sr=1-4

It's illustrated and a very nice book. I've never seen others though, honestly.

Catherine

[Nan in Mass]

I think I read the Penguin version. It was two volumes and got a bit tedious at times. Knight meets knight. Knight fights knight. Knight rides away. Over and over and over. There were other stories, but I remember long spells of this between them. It wasn't a book I need my children to wade through, so they read the abridged version by Pollard. It seemed to do a reasonable job at keeping the feel of the Penguin version. It has lovely illustrations by Rackham. It is one of the only things we've read abridged. My children read it in middle school. This probably isn't very useful advice, though, because I didn't exactly go comparing versions (as I did with Gilgamesh). The Rackham version was a Christmas present from my mother in college because she knew I'd love the illustrations. LOL it wasn't selected with homeschooling great books in mind. It is a lovely book, though, and my middle schoolers didn't have any trouble reading it.

-Nan