Title: aren't Penguin ashamed of themselves?
Product review: This translation was first published in 1844. It is, as the other reviewers pointed out, incomplete, missing one of the most important pieces - the peroration to the Five Tyrants. Gildas himself wrote in extraordinarily complicated and idiomatic (if grammatically perfect) Latin, whose understanding has greatly improved (as if you couldn't guess) in the years since 1844, and certainly needs a better translation. And as if that wasn't enough, there are at least two more recent and perfectly functional translations, Williams (1899) and Winterbottom (1978), the earlier of which is out of copyright, perfectly available and has a commentary parts of which are still valuable. So why did Penguin resurrect this prehistoric oddity? They must be mad.
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