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Le Morte Darthur / Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and his Noble / Knights of the Round Table — Thomas, Sir Malory

Le Morte Darthur / Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and his Noble / Knights of the Round Table

Thomas, Sir Malory

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Le Morte Darthur is Sir Thomas Malory’s prose romance retelling the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. It gathers tales of chivalry, quests, Merlin, and the Holy Grail into a connected narrative. Listen for its lasting influence on Arthurian literature and its vivid medieval world.

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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).

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LE MORTE DARTHUR
LE MORTE DARTHUR
Sir Thomas Malory’s Book
of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights
of the Round Table
The Text of Caxton
EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
SIR EDWARD STRACHEY, BART.
Si quando indigenas revocabo in carmina reges,
Arturumque etiam sub terris bella moventem;
Aut dicam invictae sociali foedere mensae
Magnanimos Heroas.—MƗƯǵLjƿ.
London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND NEW YORK

1893

Oxford

HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

TO

FRANCES STRACHEY

HER FATHER INSCRIBES THIS BOOK

THE INTRODUCTION TO WHICH

COULD NOT HAVE BEEN NOW RE-WRITTEN

WITHOUT HER HELP

IN MAKING THE EAR FAMILIAR WITH WORDS

WHICH THE EYE CAN NO LONGER READ.

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION.

The Introduction to the first edition of this volume included an account of the Text in the various editions of Sir Thomas Malory’s

‘Morte Darthur,’ and an attempt to estimate the character and worth

of his book. The publication of Dr. Sommer’s edition of the Text and

Prolegomena, demands that I should complete my bibliography by an account of this important work; and it enables me, by help of this learned writer’s new information, to confirm, while enlarging, my former criticism. I have, therefore, revised and re-written the two first sections of the Introduction. The Essay on Chivalry remains, but for a few verbal changes, as it was first printed.

SǼǵǵLjƿ CLjǼǡǵ,

November, 1891.

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Contents

  1. LE MORTE DARTHUR
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. INTRODUCTION.
  4. PREFACE OF WILLIAM CAXTON.
  5. The Table or Rubrysshe of the Content of Chapters.
  6. The First Book of King Arthur.
  7. Book the Second.
  8. The Third Book.
  9. The Fourth Book.
  10. The Fifth Book.
  11. The Sixth Book.
  12. The Seventh Book.
  13. The Eighth Book.
  14. The Ninth Book.
  15. The Tenth Book.
  16. The Eleventh Book.
  17. The Twelfth Book.
  18. The Thirteenth Book.
  19. The Fourteenth Book.
  20. The Fifteenth Book.
  21. The Sixteenth Book.
  22. The Seventeenth Book.
  23. The Eighteenth Book.
  24. The Nineteenth Book.
  25. The Twentieth Book.
  26. The Twenty-first Book.
  27. NOTE A.
  28. GLOSSARY AND INDEX.
  29. Transcriber's Notes
  30. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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