Sir Thomas Malory: 19 books

Tales of the knights of the Round Table have thrilled countless generations and given rise to not only movies and television shows based on Merlin, Arthur, etc, but to innumerable similar tales copying the themes of knighthood and chivalry.

Among the best liked stories of five or six hundred years ago were those which told of chivalrous deeds—of joust and tourney and knightly adventure. To be sure, these stories were not set forth in printed books, for there were no printed books as early as the times of the first three King Edwards,...

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. More than four hundred years ago there lived a diligent man called Sir Thomas Malory, who wrote in English words many of the beautiful Welsh tales about King Arthur’s Knights, that the people of Wales loved so well.

AND if so be ye can descrive what ye bear, ye are worthy to bear the arms. As for that, said Sir Tristram, I will answer you; this shield was given me, not desired, of Queen Morgan le Fay; and as for me, I can not descrive these arms, for it is no point of my charge, and yet I trust to God to bear them...

THE Morte D'Arthur was finished, as the epilogue tells us, in the ninth year of Edward IV. , i. e. between March 4, 1469 and the same date in 1470. It is thus, fitly enough, the last important English book written before the introduction of printing into this country, and since no manuscript of it has...