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.
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"Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume II" from Thomas Malory. English writer (died in 1471).

Sir Gawain is without a doubt the greatest of the King Arthur's English Knights fiercely loyal, hot headed, and fearlessly brave. Collected here in this edition are Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Jessie Weston, Gawain and the Lady of Avalon by George Augustus Simcox, Sir Gawaine's Quest for the White Hart by Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Gawain Meets Sir Prianius by Sir James Knowles, Sir Gawain and the Maid with the Narrow Sleeves by Rupert S. Holland, Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys translated by Jessie L. Weston, Sir Gawain and the Lady by Beatrice Clay, The Marriage of Sir Gawaine...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...