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Thomas Malory

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Digital Voice Martin G

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.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 a wonderful completeness by the magic ...

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Thomas Malory

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? Thomas Malory did not invent the stories of Arthur, King of Britain, but it is fair to say that he reinvented them. Although the legends were already hundreds of years old by the fifteenth century, the contemporary stories of Arthur in Malory's day were primarily French. The French had added many of the elements famil...

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Sir Thomas Malory

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...

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Oxford World's Classics

The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, `knight-prisoner'. In a resonant prose style, Malory charts the tragic disintegration of the fellowship of the Round Table, destroyed from within by warring factions. Recounting the life of King Arthur, the knightly exploits of Sir Lancelot du Lake, Sir Tristram, Sir Gawain, and the quest for the Holy Grail, Le Morte Darthur depicts the contradicti...

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Thomas Malory

According to Wikipedia: "a compilation by Sir Thomas Malory of Romance tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English stories about these figures and adds original material (the Gareth story). First published in 1485 by William Caxton, Le Morte d'Arthur is today perhaps the best-known work of Arthurian literature in English. Many modern Arthurian writers have used Malory as their principal source...

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Thomas Malory

This classic fifteenth-century chronicle of King Arthur and his knights is the essential interpretation of Arthurian legend in the English language.Full of adventure, magic, and romance, these are the timeless tales of Arthur, the great warrior king of Britain; his loyal knight Lancelot; the beautiful Queen Guinevere; and the mysterious Merlin. Based on French Arthurian romances reaching back to the twelfth century, Sir James Knowles's narrative tells of the goings...

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Sir Thomas Malory

The definitive compilation of Arthurian legends, Le Morte d’Arthur was first published in 1485, based on a number of medieval-era sources. The tales of chivalry, magic, love and betrayal, present the life of King Arthur from his birth as the son of Uther Pendragon, King of England, to his death in battle.Merlin, Lancelot and Guinevere, the quest for the Holy Grail, and the adventures of the Knights of the Round Table were arranged and translated from 12th-century French texts and E...

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Thomas Malory

About the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table. Le Morte d'Arthur was first published in 1485 by William Caxton, and is today perhaps the best-known work of Arthurian literature in English. Many modern Arthurian writers have used Malory as their principal source, including T. H. White in his popular The Once and Future King and Tennyson in The Idylls of the King.

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Sir Thomas Malory

Immerse yourself in the earliest roots of English myth and culture in this captivating twentieth-century retelling of the Arthurian legends. In these thrilling tales, the courageous fifth-century leader and his loyal band of knights wage battle against enemies both foreign and domestic.

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Thomas Malory

A late Middle Ages version of the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

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Thomas Malory

Le Morte d'Arthur is a reworking of traditional tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English stories about these figures and adds original material.

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Thomas Malory, Alfred Tennyson, Maude L. Radford, James Knowles, Richard Morris, T. W. Rolleston, Howard Pyle

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Charlotte Guest

KING ARTHUR OF CAMELOT gathers ten books into a capacious survey of the Arthurian imagination, tracing the movement from chronicle and romance to Victorian poetry, antiquarian inquiry, and richly visual retelling. Its materials range from chivalric adventure and tragic love to genealogical history, mythic interpretation, and children's literature, revealing Camelot as both a medieval inheritance and a continuously remade cultural ideal. The prose romance tradition, the lyrical recasting of...