Le Morte Darthur

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Author : Thomas Malory
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Release : 1890
File : 256 Pages
ISBN-13 : BSB:BSB11518048


Le Morte Darthur Introduction

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Genre : Arthurian romances
Author : Sir Thomas Malory
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Release : 1890
File : 252 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044100883362


Le Morte Darthur Introduction

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Genre : Arthurian romances
Author : Sir Thomas Malory
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Release : 1973
File : 622 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:49015002094556


Le Morte Darthur

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Genre : Arthurian romances
Author : Sir Thomas Malory
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Release : 1891
File : 384 Pages
ISBN-13 : BSB:BSB11518049


Le Morte Darthur

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The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, `knight-prisoner'. In a resonant prose style, Malory charts the tragic disintegration of the fellowship of the Round Table, destroyed from within by warring factions. Recounting the life of King Arthur, the knightly exploits of Sir Lancelot du Lake, Sir Tristram, Sir Gawain, and the quest for the Holy Grail, Le Morte Darthur depicts the contradictions that underscore the Fellowship's chivalric ideals. A pervading tension cumulates in the revelation of Lancelot and Guenivere's illicit passion, and in Arthur's powerlessness to prevent a related outbreak of violence and revenge. This generously annotated edition is based on the authoritative Winchester manuscript and represents what Malory wrote more closely than the first version printed by William Caxton. Intelligently abridged from the original to make a single substantial volume, the translation is supplemented by a fine Introduction, a Glossary, and extensive Notes ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Genre : Literary Collections
Author : Thomas Malory
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release : 1998-03-05
File : 624 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780191504228


Le Morte Darthur King Arthur And His Noble Knights Of The Round Table

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We owe this our English Epic of Le Morte Darthur to Sir Thomas Malory, and to William Caxton the first English printer. Caxton's Preface shows (what indeed would have been certain from his appeal to the 'Knights of England' at the end of 'The Order of Chivalry') that however strongly he, 'William Caxton, simple person,' may have been urged to undertake the work by 'divers gentlemen of this realm of England,' he was not less moved by his own love and reverence for 'the noble acts of chivalry,' and his deep sense of his duty and responsibility in printing what he believed would be for the instruction and profit of his readers, 'of whatever estate or degree.' But to Sir Thomas Malory he gives all the honour of having provided him with the copy which he printed. And ever since, for more than four hundred years, successive generations have approved the fitness of Caxton's choice. For it is Malory's book, and not the older forms of King Arthur's story which we still read for enjoyment, and for the illustration of which scholars edit those earlier books. Only a true poem, the offspring of genius, could have so held, and be still holding its ground, age after age. It may be said that it is chiefly with boys, and with men who have formed the taste by their boyish reading, that the book is so popular. But is not this so with the Iliad too? Men of mature intellect and taste read and re-read the Iliad with ever new discoveries, appreciation, and enjoyment; but it may be questioned whether there are many, or even any, of them who did not begin those studies at school, and learn to love Homer before they knew that he was worthy of their love. And they who have given most of such reading, in youth and in manhood, to Malory's Morte Darthur will be the most able and ready to recognise its claim to the character of an Epic poem.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Thomas Malory
Publisher : anboco
Release : 2016-09-01
File : 745 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783736411746


Re Viewing Le Morte Darthur

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The essays in this collection present a range of new ideas and approaches in Malory studies, looking again as the title suggests] at several of the most debated critical points. A number of articles focus closely on the implications of the production of the text, ranging from the repercussions of the working habits of the Winchester scribes, as well as of Malory's printers and editors, to a reassessment of Caxton's Preface. There are also nuanced readings of geography and politics in the Morte Darthur and its fifteenth-century contexts, and analyses of text and context in relation to the role of women, character and theme in the Morte, including the important questions of worshyp and mesure, as well as the issues of coherence and genre.

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Genre : Literary Collections
Author : Kevin Sean Whetter
Publisher : DS Brewer
Release : 2005
File : 198 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1843840359


Le Morte Darthur Studies On The Sources

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Genre : Arthurian romances
Author : Sir Thomas Malory
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Release : 1891
File : 386 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044100883370


Le Morte D Arthur

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This brisk retelling of Le Morte D'Arthur highlights the narrative drive, humor, and poignancy of Sir Thomas Malory’s original while updating his fifteenth-century English and selectively pruning over-elaborate passages that can try the patience of modern readers. The result is an adaptation that readers can enjoy as a fresh approach to Malory's sprawling masterpiece. The book's most famous episodes--the sword in the stone, the cataclysmic final battle--are all here, while lesser-known key episodes stand forth with new brightness and clarity. The text is accompanied by an up-to-date bibliography, including websites and video resources, and a descriptive index keyed--like the retelling itself--to the book and chapter divisions of William Caxton's first printed edition of 1485.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Thomas Malory
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Release : 2015-03-05
File : 368 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781624663611


Le Morte Darthur

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Selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2014, the two-volume scholarly edition of the Morte Darthur examined the two surviving versions of the text: Caxton's edition of 1485 and the Winchester manuscript, known to have existed around 1480 but lost until 1934. All major modern scholarly editions have favoured one of these to the point of preserving corrigible error. This paperback includes the definitive original spelling text edition of Malory's classic text which has been described as a "major event in the long history of Malory scholarship". Anyone wishing to have this text along with the full critical apparatus assembled by Professor Field is referred to the two-volume hardcover edition, which remains in print. P.J.C. Field is Professor of English at Bangor University.

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Genre : Arthurian romances
Author : Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Release : 2017
File : 1121 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781843844600