Bøker av Sir Thomas Malory

The tales of the legendary King Arthur and his round table of noble knights. The rise of King Arthur is often forgotten in our real world as we seek real world facts about where the legend came from. The original text does not worry about factual answers instead relying on the imagination and the fairy tale personalities of the Lady of the Lake, Merlin, Lancelot and all the rest of the noble characters that arise in these stories.

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.

Arguably no medieval English literary work has had as far and wide a reach as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur. Yet there has been no edition that draws on the results of the past generation's scholarship while presenting Malory's work in a form that is at once true to the original and accessible to the modern reader. This new edition is all of those things.

This single-volume edition of the complete works of Sir Thomas Malory retains his 15th-century English while providing an introduction, glossary, and fifty pages of explanatory notes on each romance.