Taylor and Brewer 1. T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays , 3rd enlarged ed. A Collaborative History , ed. Eugene Vinaver, introduction, The Works of Sir Thomas Malory 2nd. P.J.C. Field provides an excellent summary of Malory's tales in his entry on Malory that can be found in The New Arthurian Encyclopaedia .
Fries thinks that the novel has served to draw many students into Arthurian courses.
The 1988 Lion paperback for Merlin advertised a fourth volume in the series, Pendragon , due for release in August of 1990. However, the third novel, Arthur , waspromoted in 1989 as the last of the series. Pendragon was finally published in 1994 and is basically a re-hash of the story told in Merlin and Arthur . Frisch and Martos 24. David Wingrove ed.