The Song of Roland
Cover mockup.
The Song of Roland
Betrayed by his stepfather Ganelon, Roland commands Charlemagne’s rearguard at Roncevaux and will not sound his horn for help until it is too late.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 7–10
- First published
- c. 1100
- This edition
- C. K. Scott-Moncrieff’s verse translation, complete, in four parts with the laisses numbered.
- Pages
- 132
- Prompts
- 4, one at the close of each part
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every part of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
On the road, Ganelon tells Blancandrin how Roland once held out an apple to Charles and said “I bring you here the crowns.” List every reason Ganelon gives for hating Roland, in the council and on that road. Which one holds up best against what Roland himself says and does in this chapter?
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages132
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts4, one at the close of each part
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio