Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1
Volume 1
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- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
26 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 o…
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: | 26 May 2004 |
| Weight: | 379g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Le Morte D'Arthur |
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About The Author
Thomas Malory
No one knows for sure who the author of Le Morte D’Arthur was, but the generally accepted theory is that of American scholar G.L. Kitteredge, who argued it was Sir Thomas Malory, born in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, and who spent the greatest part of his last twenty years in prison. Another possibility is a Thomas Malory of Studley and Hutton in Yorkshire, or an author living north of Warwickshire. It is generally accepted that the author was a member of the gentry and a Lancastrain.
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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