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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

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The Childhood of Tristan
14:58
The Morholt Out of Ireland
8:37
The Quest of the Lady with the Hair of Gold
17:33
The Philtre
6:42
The Tall Pine-Tree
13:53
The Discovery
7:53
The Chantry Leap
9:47
The Wood of Morois
11:23
Ogrin the Hermit
7:01
The Ford
10:05
The Ordeal by Iron
9:09
The Little Fairy Bell
4:51
Iseult of the White Hands
10:56
The Madness of Tristan
13:50
The Death of Tristan
13:31

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (1903) is a public domain work.

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Joseph Bedier wove the scattered medieval fragments of the Tristan legend into a single flowing prose narrative, reviving one of Europe's oldest and saddest love stories. Tristan, nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, brings the Irish princess Iseult across the sea to be his uncle's bride. On the voyage the two mistakenly drink a love potion meant for the wedding night, and are bound to each other for life against all loyalty and law. What follows is a chain of secret meetings, exile, and grief that ends only in death. Bedier's telling, first published in 1900, is spare and lyrical, closer to a chanted legend than a modern novel. This free edition is available as a PDF and EPUB download.

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Joseph Bédier

Joseph Bédier (1864-1938) was a French scholar of medieval literature whose graceful reconstruction of the Tristan legend became a classic in its own right. His work bridged rigorous scholarship and living storytelling.

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