Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1
Volume 1
$22.95
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2004
Summary
Le Morte D’Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory’s richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur’s birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le Fay and the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table, it magically weaves together adventure, battle, love and enchantment. Le Morte D’Arthur looks back to an idealized Medieval world and is full of wistful, elegiac regret for a vanished age of chivalry. Edited and published in 1485, Malory’s prose romance drew on French and English verse sources to give an epic unity to the Arthur myth, and remains the most magnificent re-telling of the story in English.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140430431 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140430431 |
| Author: | Thomas Malory, Janet Cowen, John Lawlor |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2004 |
| Weight: | 379g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 128mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Le Morte D'Arthur |
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Author Biography
While the precise identity of the author of Le Morte d’Arthur remains unknown, the prevailing theory, championed by American scholar G.L. Kitteredge, attributes the work to Sir Thomas Malory. Born in the early 15th century, Malory is believed to have spent the latter twenty years of his life in prison.
Other proposed candidates include a Thomas Malory from Studley and Hutton in Yorkshire, or an author residing in the northern part of Warwickshire. It is widely agreed that the author was a member of the gentry and a supporter of the Lancastrian cause.
John Lawlor was Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Keele. He is the author of The Tragic Sense in Shakespeare, Piers Plowman: An Essay in Criticism, and Chaucer.
Janet Cowen is a senior lecturer in English at King’s College, University of London.
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