Le Morte D'arthur (Modern Library) (Modern Library (Paperback)) - Softcover

Sir Thomas Malory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375753222 ISBN 13: 9780375753220

Publisher: Modern Library Inc, 1999

Synopsis

The legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table have inspired some of the greatest works of literature--from Cervantes's Don Quixote to Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Although many versions exist, Malory's stands as the classic rendition. Malory wrote the book while in Newgate Prison during the last three years of his life; it was published some fourteen years later, in 1485, by William Caxton. The tales, steeped in the magic of Merlin, the powerful cords of the chivalric code, and the age-old dramas of love and death, resound across the centuries.

The stories of King Arthur, Lancelot, Queen Guenever, and Tristram and Isolde seem astonishingly moving and modern. Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur endures and inspires because it embodies mankind's deepest yearnings for brotherhood and community, a love worth dying for, and valor, honor, and chivalry.

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Review:

"Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in, delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose."
--Robert Graves

Synopsis:

This English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte D''Arthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory. Malory charts the tragic disintegration of the fellowship of the Round Table, destroyed from within by warring factions.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375753222
• ISBN 13: 9780375753220
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 992