Le Morte d'Arthur (Learning Channel Great Books)
Edition: Rei edition
Publisher: Random House
Published: September 21, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 795
ISBN-13: 9780679749561
Subjects: Malory, Thomas, 15th Cent.; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Movie/Tv Tie-Ins; Classics; Historical - General; Fiction / General; Arthur,; Arthurian romances; King
First sentence: King Uther Pendragon, ruler of all Britain, had been at war for many years with the Duke of Tintagil in Cornwall when he was told of the beauty of Lady Igraine, the duke's wife.
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. '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.