Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory (ebook reader with android os TXT) 📕
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Thomas Malory did not invent the stories of Arthur, King of Britain, but it is fair to say that he reinvented them. Although the legends were already hundreds of years old by the fifteenth century, the contemporary stories of Arthur in Malory’s day were primarily French. The French had added many of the elements familiar to modern readers, among them Lancelot, and the search for the Holy Grail. Malory combined, edited, and added some of his own material to the stories available to him, and in the process created a uniquely British work. (It was his printer Caxton who gave it a French name.) Le Morte d’Arthur is the source material for almost all modern retellings of King Arthur and his knights, from Hollywood movies and musicals to Nobel-prize winning writers.
Malory’s identity is still in some dispute, as there are several men of various spellings of the name to choose from. Sir Thomas Malory from Newbold Revel in Warwickshire is the most popular choice, but his life of crime—he was a rapist and serial thief at the minimum—seems to be at odds with the acts of chivalry and moral code present in this book. It is known from the author’s own notes that he wrote the book while in prison; perhaps he was trying to make amends for his crimes. Regardless, the result was to give new life to King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
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ColophonLe Morte d’Arthur
was published in 1485 by
Thomas Malory.
This ebook was produced for
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by
Vince Rice,
and is based on a transcription produced in 1998 by
Mike Lough and David Widger
for
Project Gutenberg (Volume 1, Volume 2)
and on digital scans available at the
Internet Archive (Volume 1, Volume 2).
The cover page is adapted from
And When They Came to the Sword That the Hand Held, King Arthur Took It Up,
a painting completed in 1919 by
N. C. Wyeth.
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League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
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