title: The Cambridge Old English Reader
author:  Richard Marsden 
description: "The selection of texts covers ground that no previous Reader has approached. There are items that will be of interest to specialists in Womenas Studies and Cultural Studies o The reference grammar has the best presentation I have seen in a resource of this sort - the content is both comprehensive and concise; and the arrangement is logical and user-friendly. The headnotes are also outstanding." Paul Remley, University of Washington, Seattle<br /><br />"Marsden has done a masterful job of glossing and annotating the texts in the Reader...he gets the level of annotation just right for a university-level student of the subject. I admire his headnotes very much for the amount of material he manages to convey in a relatively short space...I think that this book will be very easy to teach from. The number of texts that he offers in the book is remarkable and admirable... in addition, the careful level of glossing and annotation of some difficult texts means that a teacher can assign a much wider range of texts than usual in an introductory course..." Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, University of Notre Dame<br /><br />"Marsden's Reader offers much to admire... the book is a boon to beginners and advanced students who might want to experience some of the vividness and variety of Old English literature, and a challenge to teachers whose pedagogy has become routinized in a few canonical texts, unquestioned assumptions and repetitive readings." The Medieval Review<br /><br />"The user-friendly Reader is based on rigorous scholarship. The texts are edited from the original manuscripts, microfilms, or facsimiles, with no attempt at normalization and with very few modifications except for expansion of contractions and capitalization of proper names as well as the two principal names for the diety (p xix). The introduction to each text offers useful background knowledge and well-selected secondary material for further reading. The substantial reference grammar will serve as a dependable guide for studetns who need to refresh their memory in morphology and syntax. In sum, the Cambridge Old English Reader promises to become a standard textbook for teachers who plan to offer an intermediate course and for students who hope to conduct further reading on their own after completing an introductory course." - Haruko Momma, New York University
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  # Sir George Tressady, Vol. I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Mrs. Humphry Ward
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  PART I
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IX
  
  
    
  CHAPTER X
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XI
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XII
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  SIR GEORGE TRESSADY, VOLUME I
  
  
  IN TWO VOLUMES
  
  
  BY
  
  
  MRS. HUMPHRY WARD
  
  
  AUTHOR OF “MARCELLA,” “THE HISTORY OF DAVID GRIEVE,” “ROBERT
  
  
  ELSMEKE,” ETC.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To my Brother and friend
  
  
  WILLIAM THOMAS ARNOLD
  
  
  I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  VOLUME I.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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