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Le Morte D'Arthur

ISBN: 9780140430431 | 0140430431
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pub. Date: 1/1/1970

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes.
An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death.

Edited and first published by William Caxton in 1485, Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's unique and splendid version of the Arthurian legend. Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenever, the quest for the Holy Grail; all the elements are there woven into... MORE

The result is not only one of the most readable accounts of the knights of the Round Table but also one of the most moving. As the story advances towards the inevitable tragedy of Arthur's death the effect is cumulative, rising with an impending sense of doom and tragedy towards its shattering finale.

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Introductionvii(26)
John Lawlor
Editor's Notexxxiii
Le Morte D'Arthur
Caxton's Original Preface3(6)
BOOK I
9(51)
BOOK II
60(32)
BOOK III
92(25)
BOOK IV
117(50)
BOOK V
167(27)
BOOK VI
194(37)
BOOK VII
231(72)
BOOK VIII
303(78)
BOOK IX
381(88)
Notes to Volume I469(4)
Glossary of Proper Nouns473(6)
Glossary479
Sir Thomas Malory was a knight and estate owner in the mid 15th century, who spent many years in prison for political crimes as well as robbery. He wrote Le Morte d’Arthur, the first great English prose epic, while imprisoned in Nwgate. The epic was published in 1485 by William Caxton, the first English printer. Malory is believed to have died in 1471.


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