Le Morte d'ArthurThe 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. 'Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in, delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose,' said Robert Graves. |
Contents
BOOK II | |
BOOK III | |
BOOK IV | |
BOOK V | |
BOOK VI | |
BOOK VII | |
BOOK VIII | |
BOOK XII | |
BOOK XIII | |
BOOK XIV | |
BOOK XV | |
BOOK XVI | |
BOOK XVII | |
BOOK XVIII | |
BOOK XIX | |
BOOK IX | |
BOOK X | |
BOOK XI | |
BOOK XX | |
BOOK XXI | |
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