ARTHUR OF LITTLE BRITAIN. THE HYSTORY OF ARTHUR OF LYTELL BRYTAYNE, translated out of Frensshe in to Englishe, by the noble Johan Bourghcher, Knyght, Lord Berners. 1493.
Not the Arthurian legend, but irresponsible adventures like the Amadis. Said to have had a great influence on Spenser's Faerie Queene.
Arthur and Charlemagne are among the first and original heroes of romance, in whose chronicles are displayed the characters, the leading subjects, and the fundamental fictions which have supplied such ample matter to this form of composition. 'As Geoffrey's history is the grand repository of the acts of Arthur, so a fabulous history, ascribed to Archbishop Turpin, is the groundwork of all the legends told of the conquest of Charlemagne and his twelve peers'.
AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE, a love story, edited in old French and rendered in modern English ... by F. W. Bourdillon. Fr. and Eng. 1887.
AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE: done into English by A. Lang, 1887.
[A quaint and naïve little Provençal chante fable of the 12th century.]
AUERBACH, BERTHOLD. b. 1812, d. 1882. German-Jewish writer and poet.
BAREFOOTED MAIDEN. Tr. E. H. Wehnert. 1857.
BLACK FOREST TALES. (1843). Tr. J. E. Taylor, 1849.
A faithful record of German conditions in the early half of 19th century.