num_pages: 512
description: Le Morte D'Arthur, originally published by Caxon in 1485, was the first coherent history of Arthur from his curious birth to his dramatic death. Malory put together a web of history, saga, and religious myth that had been spun in the Dark Ages to make a collection of tales that became a justly famous classic, but because of the elaborate nature of Medieval rhetoric it has been a book which everybody has heard of but few have been able to read. Now Keith Banes has written a translation into modern idiom which faithfully preserves the sequence of events and which is complete and accurate, but is about one-half the original length.
language: English
title: Le Morte d'Arthur
titlecomplete: Le Morte d'Arthur
characters: Sir Mordred, Sir Kay, Melwys, Sir Galahad, Sir Lancelot, Queen Guinevere, Sir Balan, Sir Tristram, Sir Gareth, Vivien, Sir Perceval, Duke Gorlois, Merlin (Arthurian wizard), Igraine, King Lot, Morgan le Fay, King Arthur, King Leodegrance, King Uther Pendragon, Sir Bedivere, Sir Lucan de Butler, Sir Gawain, Sir Balin
genres: Literature, Arthurian, Classics, Mythology, Adventure, Medieval, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Fantasy
ratings_count: 37041
places: Britain, Logres
publisher: Bramhall House