Jory asked Charlie Lovett:

Sidenote: I loved your homage to Trollope in the last novel. Real question: Did you read Malory and Monmouth all the way through for your research for "Lost Book..."? I tried in grad school and couldn't digest them - especially Monmouth. That being said, the editions we were forced to read were in Middle English, so that basically sucked. What editions did you read and would recommend?

Charlie Lovett I did not read Monmouth, other than a few excerpts, but I did read a fair amount of Malory. While I read certain sections in the 1634 Stansby edition, because I wanted to quote from that edition, I mostly used the 1917 Arthur Rackaham illustrated edition (the one Arthur's grandfather buys him). Incidentally, the copy of that book I have belonged to my grandfather, so there is a nice symmetry to the whole thing. When I taught Arthurian legends to seventh-graders, we used the Roger Lancelyn Green edition (also interesting to me because Green was the original editor of Lewis Carroll's diaries and because I knew his son, Richard—but I digress . . .)

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