Thomas Malory Libri

Al tempo della Guerra delle Due Rose, ser Thomas Malory, riandando con la memoria al regno di un mitico sovrano e all'epoca ormai lontana dei grandi ideali cavallereschi, scriveva in carcere la Storia di Re Artù e dei suoi cavalieri, otto romanzi tratti dal più celebre ciclo di leggende medievali. Rivivono così la mitica spada Excalibur infitta nella roccia, gli incantesimi di Merlino e di Morgana la Fata, gli amori di Lancillotto e Ginevra e di Tristano e Isotta, la ricerca del Sangrail. Vicende di onore e passione, scontri feroci e incantesimi potenti, lotte e ricerche infinite per la conquista del potere, della gloria, dell'amore. Il fascino delle antiche saghe si unisce con il ritmo rapinoso e la prosa tersa del primo romanzo moderno d'avventura.

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.

Story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death.

The greatest English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte D'Arthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, "knight prisoner." This edition is the first designed for the general reader based on the "Winchester manuscript," which represents what Malory wrote more closely than the version printed by William Caxton. Extensively annotated, this edition is highly user-friendly. - Publisher

Chivalry is not dead! Central figures in Medieval literature, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table still inspire many books and films today. Drawing on the legends of Camelot from French and English sources, Sir Thomas Malory compiled the drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail into a sordid and chivalrous tale that's been recounted for centuries. This beautiful leather-bound volume, with gilded edges and a ribbon bookmark so you never lose your place, will be a treasured edition of classic Arthurian folklore in any home library.

Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le Fay and the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table, it magically weaves together adventure, battle, love and enchantment. Le Morte D'Arthur looks back to an idealized Medieval world and is full of wistful, elegiac regret for a vanished age of chivalry. Edited and published by William Caxton in 1485, Malory's prose romance drew on French and English verse sources to give an epic unity to the Arthur myth, and remains the most magnificent re-telling of the story in English.

The greatest English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, `knight prisoner'. This generously annotated edition, in a new abridgement by Helen Cooper based on the Winchester manuscript, represents what Malory wrote more closely than the first version printed by William Caxton.

Now the enchanting tales of King Arthur’s Camelot are an illustrated storybook perfect for today’s kids!

The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes.