Thomas Sir Malory: 19 books

" Je le requiers de vous tous, hommes et dames de bonne maison qui lirez ce livre d'Arthur et de ses chevaliers, du commencement à la fin, priez pour moi. Ce livre fut terminé la neuvième année du règne du roi Édouard IV, par messire Thomas Malory, chevalier. " Achevé donc en 1469-1470,...

First published in 1485 by William Caxton, Le Morte d'Arthur is today perhaps the best-known work of Arthurian literature in English. Many modern Arthurian writers have used Malory as their principal source, including T. H. White in his popular The Once and Future King and Tennyson in The Idylls of the King.

The Harvard Classics series is an incredible collection of the most important literary works, compiled by Charles Eliot (1834 1926), then president of Harvard University. Eliot stated that a liberal arts education could be supplemented by reading 15 minutes a day from classic works stored on a five...

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,...