- Arthurian romances, Fiction, Knights and knighthood, Romances
**Le Morte d'Arthur** (originally spelled **Le Morte Darthur**, ungrammatical Middle French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table—along with their respective folklore.
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Earnest, epic, grave and classical in form.
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- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Thomas Malory
- First published
- 1557
- Pages
- 501
- Publisher
- Medici Society Ltd., ICON Classics, P.L. Warner, publisher to the Medici Society
- Editions
- 373
- Language
- und, enm, English, German
- ISBN
- 9798783183409
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“It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him along time.”
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