Thomas Malory
Paperback | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 4.11 | 14426 Users | 55 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Story of King Arthur |
| ISBN: | 0195019059 (ISBN13: 9780195019056) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Sir Lancelot, King Arthur |
| Setting: | United Kingdom |
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Thomas Malory, knight, adventurer, and soldier, was born in the early years of the fifteenth century and died on March 14, 1471, having spent much of the last twenty years of his life in prison. It was there that he wrote most, if not all, of his works, completing the last in about 1470. Some fifteen years later William Caxton published the entire collection of his tales in one volume, "Le Morte Darthur."List Appertaining To Books King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales
| Title | : | King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales |
| Author | : | Thomas Malory |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | March 27th 1975 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 1860) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature |
Rating Appertaining To Books King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales
Ratings: 4.11 From 14426 Users | 55 ReviewsArticle Appertaining To Books King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales
IS GAME OF THRONES A RIPOFF!?!?!?!?This is Malory's Le Morte Darthur, but separated into separate stories and, in the case of one tale (The Knight of the Cart) actually re-located to a different point in the story. The Grail story is so heavily abridged that it would be incomprehensible to someone who hadn't already read the Morte. There are much better texts of Malory thann this!
Brilliant story
I am really glad to be familiar with the original English-language Arthur myths. However, they were not what I was expecting. Still, well worth reading.
Sir Thomas Malory (d. 1471) spent much of his final 20 years in prison. During those decades he translated into English and rewrote the French Arthurian romances. Stories of Grail quests, lovelorn knights, and the Round Table had been wildly popular literature in the 12th and 13th centuries.Eugene Vinaver writes in the 'Introduction' that Malory was 'a man bred up in arms who valued the dignity of knighthood above all else. Most of his knights are men of brief speech and unsophisticated
Required reading about King Arthur didn't feel like required reading. I enjoy the stories and this is one of the earlier compiled versions, I think.
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