num_pages: 212
description: 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.
language: English
title: Le Morte D'Arthur Vol. IV
publisher: Easton Press