- Fiction, Arthurian romances, Adaptations, Arthur, in fiction
Steinbeck was interested in the Arthurian legends for all his life. This is a beautiful retelling of these stories, with deep psychological insight.
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Epic, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- John Steinbeck, Thomas Malory
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 364
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Noonday Press, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
- Editions
- 42
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9789500716017
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John Steinbeck was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *The Grapes of Wrath* (1939) and the novella *Of Mice and Men* (1937). He wrote a total of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature ([Source][1]). [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
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